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Microsoft recently highlighted a new capability associated with their popular Edge browser that provides a secure network connection for browsing the

If the unbundling of Airflow means all the heavy lifting is done by separate tools, what is left behind?

"A cross between GPT-x + DALL-E-X + the TikTok algorithm"

With a CDN that's about much more than speeding downloads, Joshua Bixby sees an opportunity on the edge.

Problem: Manually managing and configuring servers is a pain in the butt. Solution: Manage and provision servers via configuration or code files.

We tear down the deck Lumigo used to land a $29 million Series A round led by Redline Capital last year.

There are two ways to build a PaaS. I'll call them top-down or bottoms-up1. Top-down PaaS are framework and language-specific – think NextJS on Vercel (or SpringBoot for the old-timers). They are highly opinionated – choosing NextJS means choosing React, single page application, and Node.js. Bottom-up PaaS look a lot more like IaaS. For example, there are PaaS built on Kubernetes, like Kubeflow, Knative, or OpenShift. These layers hope to be building blocks of bundled and abstracted IaaS. It'

India’s first open source unicorn, Hasura has shattered the notion that proprietary solutions are the sole path to building a $1Bn business

After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.

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

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…

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

Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic - Xe's Blog

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.

Hasura started from the inspiration of building a food delivery app. Its APIs are now making sense of the world's data.

EDIT April 20, 2022This article is out of date as we have since switched back to an open-source license. While we still stand for the principles in...

One of the most fertile grounds for new startups

Product velocity is the number one indicator of a successful platform. One source of product velocity comes from having a differentiated backbone that creates the opportunity to bolt on existing functionality in a new way quickly. You built a differentiated backbone by holding one primitive constant (the network, database, metrics, etc.) and optimizing around that. For example, look at Functions – are they built on the network (Cloudflare Workers), database (Snowflake UDFs), or metrics (Datadog

When competing against a cloud hyperscaler, a database is an excellent place to start. Low churn (data gravity), expensive products (often not fully utilized), and naturally built-in net dollar retention (databases rarely shrink). A look at two separate but converging spaces of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) and backend-as-a-service (BaaS). DBaaS is what it sounds like – e.g., vanilla or specialized managed Postgres or MySQL. BaaS extends the product offering – usually with building blocks like

For the last few years, usage-based pricing has been an excellent strategy for SaaS companies. But there's a question of how it will affect companies in a downturn. Everyone was looking toward Snowflake, one of the largest SaaS companies with usage-based pricing. One should note that at high contract values, usage-based pricing looks more like subscription-based pricing. Committed spend and negotiated discounts help companies have more predictable spend at scale. However, sometimes usage-based

GitHub stars are a 'Like' and 'Follow' button for GitHub repositories. When users star a repository, they get updates in their home feed about project releases. GitHub star growth is surprisingly linear when graphed, even for projects with underlying exponential growth. Why? First, why even care? Many open-source projects track stars because they don't have other great metrics about their top of funnel. Developers will be first to tell you that "stars don't matter." And to some degree, they do

Platform teams are everywhere it seems – so certainly not dead, but are they a good idea for most companies?

Why what was previously Google's biggest strength might prevent it from innovating in the future.

Series A led by Sequoia Capital

The container orchestrator may be popular, but it's also complex. Here are the pros and cons of alternatives like Nomad, Cycle, and more. #Kubernetes #K8s #containers #cloudnative #Nomad #Cycle #Hashicorp