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What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?

You’re lucky that I ain’t the president Cause I’ll push the f*#king button and get it over with F&$k all that waiting and procrastinating And all that goddamn negotiating — Bushwick Bill, Fuck a War Tom Hagen: Mike, why am …

Cheap money and power-law profits are killing venture funds and birthing venture firms.

From studying for the exam to registering with the SEC — my foray into investing in startups and venture capital by passing the Series 65 and becoming a licensed investment adviser representative.

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…

Amazon launches its streaming gaming service with a Prime tie-in; then Apple stops selling hardware in Russia, but didn’t take down the App Store. Both make sense.

Facebook and Google bans probably don’t make much of a difference in the short-term, but will be a challenge in the long-term. Then, the structure of crypto drives a different response.

More on Shopify’s Evolution, including the waning opportunities for niche businesses. Then Spotify builds out their tiered advertising strategy.

One more point on Peloton’s poor operations, then more news from the chip industry: Intel makes an acquisition and ARM is on its own.

Learn how to make your API stand out from the rest with these tried and tested tips.

The client is an Indian self-drive car rental company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Zoomcar holds the distinction of being India's first personal mobility platform, with the introduction of car-sharing services in 2013. With a strong focus on the mobile experience, Zoomcar allows users to rent cars by the hour, day, week, or month. In 2018, Zoomcar introduced India's first peer2peer based marketplace for cars with the launch of its shared subscription mobility model. Continue Reading...

We're exploring an approach to simplifying app development: storing all application and UI state in a client-side reactive relational database that provides a structured dataflow model.

It's the Read Max Career Corner

A look at what Gartner thinks is coming in cloud, network, and app security over the next few years.

And a quick and dirty look at SPLK, NTNX, and GWRE

I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade. This view is focused on enterprise software. I am more bullish on SMB SaaS, primarily on vertical-specific players which I will discuss below. Vertical Aggregation

The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last

Summary: The displacement of in-person developer events has vaulted Developer Advocacy forward by...

SWIFT operates a messaging protocol which ties banks together with correspondent banks. This collaboration enables most international wires.

Feisty indies that do too well don't stay indie for long

A look at what Zscaler provides in Zero Trust and SASE, and what it is focused on next.

The advertising has shifted from a Google-Facebook duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces.

What does it mean when we say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out? Why is it important? And how else could we look at this problem?

There are few things more exciting than being at a company during hypergrowth, but it’s easy to let hypergrowth get away from you, and to end up reacting instead of planning. It’s hard to steer when you’re rebuilding a plane mid-flight, but you can always nudge it in the right direction.

This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. After I left SocialCode in 2014, I spent a month interviewing at a handful of companies trying to figure out what to do next. I was torn between two different paths: (1) leading engineering at a very small startup, or (2) taking a much smaller role at a fast growing company, with the expectation that growth would create opportunity.

Early on in your company’s lifetime, you’ll form the seed of your infrastructure organization: a small team of four to eight engineers. Maybe you’ll call it the infrastructure team. It’s very easy to route infrastructure requests, because they all go to that one team. Later on, things are easy as well. You have seventy engineers spread across eight to ten mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive teams with names like Storage, Traffic, and Compute.

A look at how endpoint protection providers are morphing into XDR.

The introduction to this series can be found here. Summary: There are many ways to put a human life together, including for sex and love. Each path has tradeoffs. __________________________________…

Cloud computing, DevOps and agile development, data infrastructure, AI/ML, enterprise apps and collaboration tools, and security.