March 10, 2016 Published by Igor Maravić Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a small piece of information, an event, is sent
Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part II) March 3, 2016 Published by Igor Maravić Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for
Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part I) February 25, 2016 Published by Igor Maravić Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about how private equity is reacting to the pa
Despite existing in an era with the highest living standards in the history of mankind, despite having easy access to most of our material needs, recent polls have revealed that we modern people are m
The Development of the C Language* Dennis M. Ritchie Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA dmr@bell-labs.com ABSTRACT The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a s
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hate it, we can cri
Good Product Team / Bad Product Team NOTE: My friend and colleague Jeff Patton is the author of a book on the general topic of User Stories and especially the technique of Story Mapping. I was asked t
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 7 min read · Apr 20, 2010 -- I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people . A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup
Opinion You Are Now Remotely Controlled Surveillance capitalists control the science and the scientists, the secrets and the truth. By Ms. Zuboff is the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.”
I’ve been using dokku to host the majority of my personalprojects for the last few years. It’s a delightful little self-hosted Platform as a Service,offering a Heroku-like workflow with all the flexib
If you listened to episode 180 of The Big Web Show , you heard two key themes: 1) personalization is now woven into much of the fabric of our digital technology, and 2) designers need to be much more
My name is David Heinemeier Hansson, and I’m the CTO and co-founder of Basecamp, a small internet company from Chicago that sells project-management and team-collaboration software. When we launched o
Whenever I transition to a new opportunity, I think about how to start well . How can I ramp up as effectively as possible? How do I balance the urge to “show value” early with making the right decisi
published February 24th, 2019 This week’s essay is on how to be an effective executive. This is inspired by a talk Keith gives to some of our portfolio companies’ executives. Summary Running yourself
Chapter 1. Management 101 The secret of managing is keeping the people who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their minds. Casey Stengel You’re reading this book because you want to be a
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