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The problem I have: The CEO (and the investors, or the whole industry) is obsessed with ARR per employee. That's the key metric (in their mind). It doesn't matter how much the empl…

It never occurred to me that Goodhart's law could be applied to betting, but here we are :)

I predict that Anthropic will clamp down on the heavy agentic use of Claude Pro, the cost gap between Claude Code and this approach is HUGE... Anyway, I'm doing the same - one extr…

> The data exposure was discovered following an internal investigation conducted voluntarily by Kaiser Permanente. The company discovered that online trackers used on its websites …

> Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter From https://www.geekwire.com/2023/google-cloud-posts-second-stra... Yes, Google has killed a lo…

Answering your technical question: Some companies let you deploy their "building blocks" onto multiple clouds (you typically choose the exact region/availability zone), and then al…

Reading the "Our Process: De-Extinction of the Dodo bird" section, I couldn't help but to think of https://xkcd.com/2501/ ...

I think your criticism of the term is somewhat valid, in the end these are just back-ends with APIs :) However, the point the platforms are trying to make is that their APIs have b…

Full disclosure: I work at commercetools, another player in the space. The movement towards "headless", API-first platforms has a lot of steam. So much so that older platforms (e.g…

commercetools | 100% Remote (European Union) | Full-Time | Principal Engineers I am the Director of Tech Leadership at commercetools and I am looking for Principal Engineers intere…

In my experience, a week-long rotation is much more grueling than a daily rotation. Having to stay home for a single evening/night has much less impact for me than having to do it …

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I stumbled upon this post the other day, maybe you'll find it helpful: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/an-aws-free-tier-bill-sho...

We at commercetools have remote Scala roles open both in Europe and the US (EST timezone only, though): https://commercetools.com/careers/jobs

Yes. We migrated from Rackspace to GCP. When I joined the company, it was clear Rackspace was loosing the cloud race, but back in 2012/2013 it was a strong contender. Sometimes one…

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One book I haven't seen mentioned so far is Elastic Leadership - https://www.elasticleadership.com/ I like that it's quite hands-on, and that it also explicitly focuses on HOW to g…

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