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every backend i see, PagerDuty and Datadog seem to have ~100% market share, basically uncontestedhow do you dominate a category so completely that other pple look at you and go “nah i cant top that”? this is a high art— swyx 🗽 (@swyx) June 29, 2022

India’s labour force participation has gone from almost 60% in the 90s to under 40% this year. What’s furthering this gap? Its maternity law

Ship 30 for 30 is a cohort-based curriculum & daily writing challenge that teaches you how to start writing online by writing 30 Atomic Essays in 30 days.

My colleague Stephen recently wrote an excellent and well-received post about the Developer Experience Gap – the chasm separating modern promises of developer productivity with the reality of stitching environments together by hand. There are so many powerful tools and platforms out there – we keep calling it a Golden Age for developers – but

One of the more interesting discussions that attracted some attention during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon was how, due to its design, WebAssembly can replace Docker in many circumstances.

Building APIs is fundamentally hard because it's an unusual UI paradigm. A bit like designing command line tools — you aren't interacting with things like a mobile app. Getting users to that happy path is super important! Here is a quick checklist of...

Figuring out what best practices to master and how to reduce risk in product development is hard. I break down some frameworks that help make sure teams work on the right things in the right way.

Staying builds valuable, company-specific knowledge. Leaving often results in a payday—but, why aren't tech companies paying more for their engineers to stay?

I spoke at the AppNexus Summit a couple of weeks ago. Brian O’Kelley read my post on adtech investing trends and asked if I could expand during the session. The video is online (my part at 1:…

Why the difference between them matters for career growth, and how to determine which one you work in

One of the more popular questions I get is, “What are characteristics of successful entrepreneurs?” Beyond basic personality attributes like passionate, opinionated, confident, resourceful, positiv…

An overview of how most businesses make sense of their data today

Opposite is a Mumbai-based design studio that partners with emerging companies to build brands & digital experiences

Defining a more modular, adaptable, and scalable design system for MoMA's advertising and institutional materials.

A detailed analysis of PagerDuty stock, including the product offering, addressable market and growth vectors. Investors can use this to consider purchasing PD stock.

Twilio (TWLO) should be considered for long-term investment. It is developer-centric, founder led and rapidly iterating to address an enormous market.

MongoDB (MDB) stock should be considered for long term investment. Based on my characteristics for a successful software stack company, I expect MongoDB to

Smartsheet should be considered for long term investment. They are a recognized leader in an expanding market with impressive penetration in the Fortune 500.

Zendesk (ZEN) is a leading provider of customer engagement systems. We recommend the stock for long term investment due to its rapid product expansion and huge market opportunity.

I expect Elastic's stock price to increase significantly over the next 5 years, due to their leading position as a generalized development platform for search.

An in-depth analysis of DocuSign (DOCU) stock, covering financials, product offerings, addressable market and competitive landscape.

An in-depth analysis of Okta (OKTA) stock, covering financials, product offerings, addressable market, competitive landscape, sales strategy and leadership.

Internet usage patterns and delivery of software applications are undergoing major paradigm shifts. Decentralization is the primary pattern - transitioning