The text discusses the CartoDB platform, its benefits, and its applications in geospatial projects. It features an interview with John Branigan from Azavea, a CartoDB partner, who shares his experiences using the platform for various projects such as visualization of oil producing countries, Philadelphia election results, Maplight, and Citizen Science Inventory. John highlights the flexibility of CartoDB's API, its ability to handle data storage, and its styling wizards, which make it an ideal choice for geospatial developers. He also mentions that CartoDB saves him days of DevOps by providing a hosted open source spatial database.