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MongoDB delivered a banner quarterly report in early December, beating expectations on all fronts. The highlight was their continued revenue growth

Sometimes smart people working hard make things worse. The following story is based my recollection of some real events:Scheduling Work ProblemsA s...

WebGPU is an upcoming Web API that gives you low-level, general-purpose access GPUs.

Most software is feature-ful: built from an amalgamation of individual features, which are usually atomic ways to do something specific, arranged in a singular interface that has to work for every user of that piece of software. Each feature is usually built with a small number of end-to-end user experiences in mind (often in the form of "user stories"). Each feature has to live somewhere in the UI; sometimes they're put in unexpected or awkward places, and every so often the whole UI gets shuffled up in a redesign.

People are often baffled why enterprise software is slow, uses lots of memory, and is generally a pain to work with. Before starting mailbox.my, I did work at a large enterprise software company, so I hope to offer some insights with this post. Most of this actually applies to software in general.

I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved

As time has gone by, one of the things I've enjoyed the most in running Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) is seeing how far I could make the dollars stretch. How big can it go whilst at the same time, running it on a shoestring? I keep

Thousands of startups have started over the past decade, and there are plenty of startups claiming to abstract away your ops for you as a service, but nothing is there to help you Day 0. And, you are asked for X or Y before you can start using these services. There is an app for everything within startup operations, but while looking for help online and across startup communities, I couldn't find a simple list that just told me what I needed, when, and why.

“Every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” - Neil Armstrong I was talking to a friend recently abou...

I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of …

While developing a simple app that I really wanted to publish on the App Store, I ran into a lot more limitations than I was prepared for. This is a story of how I overcame those limitations and then tried to understand why other useful apps chose the self-publishing route.

When starting a SaaS business you eventually arrive at the challenge of pricing and packaging. Many great articles have been written on the subject, we've read them all, and still we missed the mark. Here's our thoughts on version 2.0.

The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer - Rogério Chaves

When whatever language I am using as my main workhorse language at the time gets new features I worry. Go is getting generics and I have to admit I’m a bit worried.

In 1984 Jane Pauley interviewed 28-year-old Bill Gates.

I want to try to explain why Gamestop went up 100-fold in the last year and why Sears never recovered.

Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…

Wealth is easy to measure but hard to value.

The demand for forecasts grows after a surprise.

The biggest risk to an evolving system is that you become bogged down by experts from a world that no…

Elon Musk said he had lunch with Charlie Munger in 2009.

One hundred billion people have walked this planet.

Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.

Following advice by successful people might not be enough. A short essay about survivorship bias, and how it can make you forget the most important ingredient to success: luck.