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An interview with Brex co-founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi about what makes Brex unique, why it is pushing into software, and what drove its decision to cut off a big portion of its customer bas…

Follow-up to Spotify, Netflix, and Aggregation, and why brand advertising makes sense for Netflix.

The final chapter of Ray Dalio's Life Principles — which has to do with better decision-making.

An in-depth look at John Boyd and the OODA loop, the strategic thinker most concerned about fast adaptation under uncertainty.

Cloudflare Platform Week SSI Blog Post Digest Cloudflare Platform Week Of all the companies I cover, I think Cloudflare (NET) has the most impressive product delivery cadence.

Snowflake Summit 2022 Coverage SSI Blog Post Digest Snowflake Summit 2022 After their CEO promised "our most significant product announcements in four years", Snowflake held their annual Summit user conference last week.

Obviously Kubernetes doesn't replace the actual OS (i.e. linux) but it provides OS like services at the cloud level...

To understand Kubernetes we have to go back to the basics and start from scratch.

How the experiences on the Web evolved influenced by Web frameworks, and what's next for the Web and me.

It took a few moments to realize what was striking about the opening video for Nvidia’s GTC conference: the complete absence of humans. That the video ended with Jensen Huang, the founder and…

Meta’s metaverse approach, from chips to operating systems to business models, evinces a lack of strategy.

Apple’s spring event was a mishmash of products around a unified message about the power of Apple Silicon.

Sequoia’s transformation of its venture capital model is actually a shift from financial capital to productive capital

This paper was originally written in 2010 for a Corporate Innovation class at Kellogg Business School, and thus predates Stratechery by several years.

Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside

Zero Trust Networking is security with Internet assumptions; there is tremendous value if we apply the same approach to information.

OS X is retired, but fortunately, its legacy appears to live on in macOS 11.0.

The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms

Explaining exactly why Apple’s approach to ATT is anti-competitive

The history of credit cards helps explain why Plaid is valuable to Visa, and how Visa can make it significantly better.

From CTO to unemployed overnight - what now?

The person who tells the most compelling story wins.

Faster JSON handling in a relational database.

Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here's how we built it—and why.

Cohesion is part of the low coupling, high cohesion principle that’s supposed to keep your code maintainable. While low coupling means few dependencies, high cohesion roughly translates to single responsibility. Highly cohesive code (a module or a function) is focused on a single purpose. Low cohesion means it does many unrelated things. I’ve written about coupling in the previous article on anti-patterns. Here are some tips on increasing cohesion in Go applications using the recently released generics.

Dockerfiles are a constant source of frustration in the container ecosystem. First, they are difficult to write (well). They can't express all types of build graphs – only linear graphs are easily expressible, limiting the amount of parallelism one can do (i.e., how fast your builds can be). Finally, they are difficult to natively integrate into build systems – passing well-known build arguments, environment variables, and other build-time variables. But what if we could easily define docker bu

An explanation of monads in disguise

When to use generics when writing Go code, and when not to use them.

Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.