When Mitchell Hashimoto , co-founder, former CTO, and now engineer at HashiCorp, joined us for Dev Tool Time on July 21, 2021, he showed how the simplest and most complex dev tools can fit into a deve
«Mas donde crece el peligro, también crece lo salvador». Esta cita del poeta alemán Friedrich Hölderlin resume muy bien el momento que vivimos: la humanidad avanza a empellones y las grandes transform
Luis XIV, el Rey Sol, vivía con todos los lujos de la época. Viajaba en espléndidos carruajes, degustaba deliciosos manjares, estudiaba manuscritos antiguos, contemplaba colecciones de arte barroco y
My engineering leadership circle met yesterday, and like usual, we talked about our current challenges before segueing into a deeper discussion. This time, Jack Danger brought up the challenge of meas
Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone
There's a gap between what I do and what I think I do. Contradictions between how we perceive ourselves and the realities that are represented by our digital footprints have been laid bare by the rele
Welcome to the third interview on 'The Observer Effect'. We are lucky to have oneof the most interesting founders in technology and commerce - Tobi Lütke, Founderand CEO of Shopify. This interview was
4 min read · Mar 24, 2018 -- A T-shaped person is capable in many things and expert in, at least, one. As opposed to an expert in one thing (I-shaped) or a “jack of all trades, master of none” general
how we pay for software Quality software costs money to make. The tech industry has backed itself into a corner in the last couple decades by implying to users that software doesn’t cost much. Google
For a company whose product focuses on numbers, Stripe has built an enviable writing culture. Their quarterly software engineering magazine (Increment) and publishing imprint (Stripe Press) are impres
Superstar employees are invaluable. As founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers Art Rooney once said, "You can never overpay a good player. You can only overpay a bad one. I don't mind paying a good
Mikael Jansson/Trunk Archive Idea in Brief The Challenge Major companies competing in many industries struggle to stay abreast of rapidly changing technologies. One Major Cause They are typically orga
how we manage our attention All computers are now networked computers. The result is an Information Age of hyperconnectivity: We stay in touch with friends and family over social media and group messa
Join us for episode 13 of The Torch of Progress with Adam Wiggins Key Discussion Points: Thomas Edison, Bell Labs, ARPA, and Xerox PARC: what do all of these people and groups have in common? They are
You are here: Engineering Architecture Practices Scalability Maintained by : Jörg Heilig @joergheilig Scalability is a strategic practice . We need A framework to evaluate technical scalability-relate
Out of the Tar Pit is a 2006 paper by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks about the causes and effectsof complexity in software systems. The thesis of the paper is stated already in the second sentenceof the
Who hasn’t dreamed of living a more wholesome, less frenetic life? Ten years ago economist Mark Boyle tried living without money. Two years ago he foreswore modern technology as well. We asked him wha
Quite often, we will talk to new clients about what “learning from incidents” means to them. The descriptions we get in response tend to be important signals for us as we work through whatever project
Fintech Judge Zia Faruqui is trying to teach you crypto, one ‘SNL’ reference at a time His decisions on major cryptocurrency cases have quoted "The Big Lebowski," "SNL," and "Dr. Strangelove." That’s
A common debate in software development projects is between spending time on improving the quality of the software versus concentrating on releasing more valuable features. Usually the pressure to del
Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted from a fringe idea to a seeming inevitability (thanks in no small part to India’s decision to do just that ), those opposed to
Donald Trump, al anunciar el acuerdo entre Israel y Emiratos Árabes Unidos, en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, el pasado jueves. DPA vía Europa Press (Europa Press) Por una vez, estoy de acuerdo c
En la última década, el imperio de las grandes plataformas tecnológicas se ha expandido hasta ocupar todas las industrias, como una flota tentacular de cables y servidores, imponiendo su propio modelo
Infrastructure, ops, devops, systems engineering, sysadmin, infraops, SRE, platform engineering. As long as I’ve been doing computers, these terms have been effectively synonymous. If I wanted to tell
← Mark McGranaghan 2019-12 Recruiting is so important. It’s perhaps the biggest factor in company success. It determines where individuals will spend years of their professional lives. But the sad rea
Cuenta Byung-Chul Han (Seúl, 1959) que empezó a interesarse por la Filosofía por un problema de exceso de atención. Leía demasiado despacio. Su incapacidad para adecuar su ritmo de lectura al que, seg
High Output Management by Andy Grove is widely considered to be the best book on management and by the end of this post, you’ll understand why. I think Tobi Lutke , the co-founder and CEO of Shopify,
Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This is the subject of Cory
Cuando era el mejor del mundo en lo suyo, Ferran Adrià (Barcelona, 58 años) cerró. No todos pueden decir lo mismo. Ha asesorado a más de 40 multinacionales y ha impartido clases en Harvard. Tampoco. H
Life is short. It’s ending one minute at a time. Why waste it on fulfilling other people’s expectations? This is just one of those questions presented in a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk named Fight
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