You blame lack of monitoring and observability. I blame lack of simplicity, to reach exactly the same effect, in most orgs.

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➡️margin directly drives valuation ➡️cloud spend is increasingly contributing to margin ➡️cloud stacks are *horribly* inefficient ➡️I suspect there are hundreds of billions of dollars of market cap being depressed layer of inefficient layer in the public cloud

Boring CTO opinion: almost everything you built in years 0-3 should've been built on Rails + Heroku. Optimize your engineering decisions for iteration speed, observability, and simplicity until you achieve Product-Market Fit — and probably longer.

Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance 🧵

Big Complexity is the next challenge after Big Data. Nick Schrock

1970: We're going to build a global network that can withstand a nuclear war. 2021: AWS is down and my coffee machine doesn't work.

Expect an increase in business travel in remote-first world. Many of us can work from anywhere now, but there is no substitute for [at least occasional] in-person moments. So in addition to sales travel (which will return naturally) there will be many going-to-see-my-team trips.

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Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days.

This is the AWS console with 510 products. There is a big, independent company to be built for each item in this list.

In light of yet another WSJ hit piece on Elon Musk, let’s recall what Larry Ellison said about the WSJ back in 2018:

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.

11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively. A list for those who write code: 1 of 16

How the economy will most likely shape software engineering: The classic fullstack team setup of: - 1x native iOS - 1x native Android - 1x frontend - 2x backend This will become an expense fewer take on. More teams will do instead: - 1x cross-platform mobile+web - 1x fullstack

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