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A 12-Minute Summary of “Start With Why” by Simon Sinek

Perceptual exposure is the rare learning technique that allows you to learn tacit knowledge — that is, knowledge that can't be communicated. And it begins with a simple question: how do you tell if a chick is male or female?

A platform offering can provide SaaS providers with a way to expand their reach and generate new revenue streams. We examine what is required and business considerations.

DevOps companies are in the business of observability. The sooner they realize that, the better. Observability has come to mean more than just logs, metrics, and traces. It has encompassed the entire lifecycle of system management – from alerting on anomalous data to securing endpoints. Observability helps businesses manage their software. What does that have to do with DevOps? At a high level, DevOps products sit in the software development lifecycle – from development, to CI, to deployment.

A look at HashiCorp's product line as it IPOs, and how it's entering Zero Trust.

None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.

An overview of Datadog's platform, and where it is taking it next.

This article expands on one section of my talk What Lies Between: The Challenges of Operationalising Microservices from QCon London 2019. Over the past few years, observability has become a prominent topic in distributed computing. Observability means different things to different people and the use of the term is still

Run by 19YO tech entrepreneurs, Zepto competes with industry leaders Grofers—now BlinkIt—and Dunzo to bring your daily grocery items

Revolutionizing the most foundational developer tool is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.

How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing

In this article, Lago's cofounder Raffi gives an overview of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing model at Qonto, and what we learned during this journey.

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.

The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen plans “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar.

I'm not saying the only reason I've categorically refused to invest in tech startups in the past was my instinctual aversion to the term "angel investor", but it surely did play a part! There's just something so ridiculously self-serving about this angelic charade that turned me off for the longest time. So too did the fact that every ...

Fifteen years later, developers are still trying to recreate the developer experience of Heroku. Yet, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Why did Heroku fail? Was it just incompetent management? Was the idea too early? If developers demand Heroku, why haven't they (or a competitor) figured out how to make it viable? Here are four hypotheses about Heroku's successes and failures and why they may be wrong. Market Timing Hypothesis. > Heroku was acquired too early and s

A look at the trade-offs with local development in a world that is increasingly cloud-native.

An interview with “The Metaverse” author Matthew Ball about Metaverse timing, challenges, and Netflix’s content challenges

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.

Last week, food technology company Rebel Foods (previously Faasos) kicked off its $75MM fundraise with a $16MM first tranche.  Beginning to Roll The Faasos’ journey poetically started with a beverage (read alcohol). In 2003, Jaydeep Barman and his co-founder friend Kallol found themselves deep in a drunken conversation. While looking to name their company, they came up with “Fanatic… Read More »Inside Faasos’ Rise to The Cloud

Last week, Postman raised $150MM at a valuation of $2Bn and entered the coveted unicorn club. Joining the league of Indian SaaS unicorns like Freshworks and Druva, Postman has been the fastest to get here, taking just six years. Open the Bridge They say startups emerge from founders’ personal pain.  In 2009, Abhinav Asthana was… Read More »Will Postman Deliver Tech to Build Software’s Global Bridges?

What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.

What the first IPO of a truly all-remote company tells us about remote work

See how Consul can help you achieve the right DevOps workflow whether you’re a developer or an operator.

Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b