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Virtual private clouds (VPCs) live at the molecular level of cloud architecture. Not quite atomic (core cloud services) or elemental (user-defined services), they define how which sets of services can talk to each other, They act as security boundaries and a networking layer for sets of services. But in the SaaS cloud era, VPCs take on even more importance. They are a deployment target for SaaS vendors – (see SaaS Isolation Patterns). These vendors "take ownership" of a VPC. Customers can ensu

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?

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

I believe we should look beyond libraries and frameworks and rediscover the value of patterns and principles, and I’d argue that it would lead us to have less breaking changes and add more longevity to the stuff we build.

The title explains it all, you don't even have to read. There are no good, even passable web browsers. None. Not a single one even comes close. The weird thing is this: making a good browser should be easy! Among the existing web browsers, you could assemble all the parts necessary for a passable (if not perfect) browser. No one has ever bothered to do this, instead, people assembled 90% good stuff and 10% junk.

1/ Startups get funded when they’re expected to be valuable, and they’re valuable when they can generate a continuous stream of profits for its investors. 2/ With this view, the value of a startup comes mostly from its expected moat, i.e. how well can it defend its business from competitors once they take notice of… Read More

most important things are outlier-driven • draw lots of samples • filter for maybe-amazing, not probably-good • learn where your bar should be • expect to fail a lot

Flexibility is overrated, sometimes it is better to use opinionated tools, frameworks, and languages

Following advice by successful people might not be enough. A short essay about survivorship bias, and how it can make you forget the most important ingredient to success: luck.

One hundred billion people have walked this planet.

Elon Musk said he had lunch with Charlie Munger in 2009.

The biggest risk to an evolving system is that you become bogged down by experts from a world that no…

Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.

The demand for forecasts grows after a surprise.

In 1984 Jane Pauley interviewed 28-year-old Bill Gates.

Wealth is easy to measure but hard to value.

I want to try to explain why Gamestop went up 100-fold in the last year and why Sears never recovered.

Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…

When whatever language I am using as my main workhorse language at the time gets new features I worry. Go is getting generics and I have to admit I’m a bit worried.

The Pragmatic Pragmatic Programmer - Rogério Chaves

While developing a simple app that I really wanted to publish on the App Store, I ran into a lot more limitations than I was prepared for. This is a story of how I overcame those limitations and then tried to understand why other useful apps chose the self-publishing route.

When starting a SaaS business you eventually arrive at the challenge of pricing and packaging. Many great articles have been written on the subject, we've read them all, and still we missed the mark. Here's our thoughts on version 2.0.

Thousands of startups have started over the past decade, and there are plenty of startups claiming to abstract away your ops for you as a service, but nothing is there to help you Day 0. And, you are asked for X or Y before you can start using these services. There is an app for everything within startup operations, but while looking for help online and across startup communities, I couldn't find a simple list that just told me what I needed, when, and why.

“Every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” - Neil Armstrong I was talking to a friend recently abou...