Links

A short collection of links that I find interesting online as well as some attached commentary or callouts with them.

This reflects a pattern we’ve observed repeatedly in AI tooling. Social media excitement and company valuations have minimal relationship to real-world utility. We’ve found the most reliable signal comes from detailed stories of users shipping products and services. For now, we’re sticking with tools that let us drive the development process while providing AI assistance along the way.

To deliver an “infra-less” cloud experience to our customers, we’ve needed to get good fast at building out our own physical infrastructure. That’s the topic of our blogpost today.

Lots of product managers make the mistake of jumping to solutions. Stop that.

Susie Goodall wanted to circumnavigate the globe in her sailboat without stopping. She didn’t bargain for what everyone else wanted.

I’ve led infrastructure at a startup for the past 4 years that has had to scale quickly. From the beginning I made some core decisions that the company has had to stick to, for better or worse, these past four years. This post will list some of the major decisions made and if I endorse them for your startup, or if I regret them and advise you to pick something else.