Have you heard Weston Jossey explain his company's hybrid cloud strategy before? If you haven't, get comfortable and enjoy the recording of our most recent OpenStack Podcast. In it, Wes explains why his company chose to deploy a private cloud, what they use it for, and how they use it in conjunction with AWS to achieve maximum efficiency.  Seriously-if you're looking for tips about how to do hybrid well, this is the podcast for you. Wes makes it easy to understand both the upside and downside of private clouds in general and OpenStack-based private clouds in particular. Plus, he's extraordinarily honest about what OpenStack is good for and what it's not so good for. Among other things, in this interview, Wes discusses:

• Tapjoy's big data architecture
• How they handle 5-10 billion transactions per day
• The TCO of their OpenStack-based cloud
• How he finds great hires in a competitive market
• How Tapjoy automates deployment

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To see the full transcript of this interview, click "Read more" below.

Niki Acosta: Hello, Hello, Hello! It's Niki Acosta from Cisco filling in for Jeff Dickey from Redapt, and I'm so excited about today's guest, Weston Jossey! Introduce yourself.
Weston Jossey: Hey, Niki! Thanks for having me on. As you said, I'm Wes; I'm Director of Engineering over at Tapjoy. Man, I guess, Niki, you and I have known each other for what, almost coming up on a year...
Niki Acosta: Yeah!
Weston Jossey: ... since I started working with Metacloud and doing a bunch of stuff on OpenStack.
Niki Acosta: Yes, and we're really excited! We've received a ton of feedback from our listeners. Thank you to our loyal listeners, who said, "Man, it would be really great to hear from more users." So, we reached out to Wes. Wes has spoken at an OpenStack, two OpenStack Summits, right?
Weston Jossey: Yep. Well, no, one OpenStack Summit and then recently spoke at Inter- or not Interop, spoke at-
Niki Acosta: Cisco Live.
Weston Jossey: Cisco live in San Diego, yeah.
Niki Acosta: What was that like to speak at the ... That was the Paris Summit, right?
Weston Jossey: That was the Paris Summit. Yeah, it was terrifying, is probably one way to define that. We flew out to Paris on a Sunday night and I spoke on a Tuesday night and I was still majorly jet-lagged by the time I had to give the presentation on Tuesday morning. It was great; it was a gigantic amphitheater. Where were we Niki? It was ...
Niki Acosta: The Palais de Congr