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Can Hasura’s APIs Link the World’s Data? – A Junior VC
Hasura started from the inspiration of building a food delivery app. Its APIs are now making sense of the world's data.
Backing your ex(-employee)
“My job as CEO is to make folks as rich and as famous as they can be.” View email in browser | Forward this email By Biz Carson June 25, 2022 Hello, and welcome to Pipeline. My name is Biz Carson, and I've listened to Beyoncé sing “You won’t break my soul” too many times to count this week.
What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get
A Lesson in Mimetic Relationship Dynamics
Data Planes and Control Planes
In network routing, there’s a distinction between control planes and data planes. Control planes dictate how data is routed over the network topology. The data plane is responsible for the actual forwarding of the data packets. The idea of separating these two functions works well for higher abstractions like distributed systems. For a more concrete example, look at a service mesh. The data plane in service mesh has the responsibilities of service discovery, packet routing, load balancing, a
Premium: New edge-native primitives
A look at the recent Platform Week from Cloudflare, and how it is enabling the programmability of the web.
Athens' $1.9M Seed Round, led by Caffeinated Capital
We raised $1.9M to invest in our vision of building a second brain and a second internet using knowledge graphs and bidirectional links.
Arc Browser Company: Google Chrome and Apple Safari Face a New Challenger
All That is Rare and Valuable - Commonplace
Career moats consist of rare and valuable skills. But there are other things that are rare and valuable in a career. Here are a few examples.
Competitive Arbitrage - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog
If you want to understand career moats, understand competitive arbitrage. It is the background and justification for the pursuit of a moat.
A Land & Expand Reading Program for B2B Sales
How I constructed a list of books that serve as a primer to the entire field of B2B sales.
Career Networking and Power
Can networking act as a career moat? The answer is more nuanced than you might think.
The Browser Company wants you to build your own internet home
We spoke to three of the startup's product designers about how Arc can be the future of web browsing.
Arc Browser Company: Google Chrome and Apple Safari Face a New Challenger
The browser wars are over, and innovation on Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari has largely stalled. Josh Miller’s Browser Co. is rethinking the fundamentals of how we use the web.
Scrivener for non-fiction writers - ScrivenerVirgin
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
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My Interview with Craft VP of Engineering on Craft 2, Extensions, the Web App, and More
Craft 2.0 [https://www.craft.do/s/lEjdSXBpq9jSgg] released a few weeks ago, and it had some things I really wanted more details about, so I was really excited when Craft agreed to do an interview with me for A Better Computer to talk about the nitty-gritty details of
HashiCorp tool sniffs out configuration drift • The Register
OK, which of those engineers tweaked the settings? When infrastructure shifts away from state defined by original code
Overstating the Consumerization of IT – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Marco Arment, in Underscore Price Dynamics: This is the real reason why Apple doesn’t care about upgrade pricing: there’s no demand from customers. The market has shown that free apps will be downl…
Cloud-native platforms are a Gartner tech trend, at last
The inclusion of cloud-native platforms in Gartner’s 2022 Strategic Tech Trends shows business leaders are wising-up to what it takes to reap cloud success.
Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic
Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic - Xe's Blog
Netlify, Vercel, and AWS Amplify
Netlify and Vercel are two startups growing at record pace. Both nail the developer experience and supercharge developer productivity. Tooling is everything, and in a world where bottoms up adoption is so strong, individual developers essentially pick the enterprise stack. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is AWS. But the thing about 800-pound gorillas is that they weigh 800-pounds. AWS Amplify has failed to gain the same kind of traction (that's anecdotal evidence, I don't have numbers to supp
Magic Quadrant Research Methodology | Gartner
Gartner's Magic Quadrant research methodology provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers.
My Thoughts About Fly.io (So Far) and Other New-ish Technology I'm Getting Into
Hartley writes about full stack software development, marketing, and web scraping. Based in Boston, MA.
GP Bullhound - Consumer Subscription Software Update
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Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved
Shift left and shift right are core testing concepts of the agile DevOps methodology, which speeds up application development by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. As part of the continuous cycle of progressive delivery, DevOps teams are also adopting shift-left and shift-right principles to ensure software quality in these dynamic environments. All this…
Datadog Q3 2021 – Land and Expand (Squared)
Datadog (DDOG) delivered another impressive earnings report on November 4th. After a strong Q2, Datadog is showing no signs of slowing down as we finish out
Data's Limits and the Judgment Gap
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The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.
Building a Belief System | (Not Boring) Software
The experiences that shape the values that shape the beliefs that shape the products.