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2019 when we got started with Linear, most SaaS websites at the time seemed to be these "Corporate Memphis" sites with vague benefit statements and weird colorful illustrations. No screenshots of the product and dark sites were very rare in B2B SaaS.
Linear doesn’t have metrics goals - the founder thinks setting specific metric goals can lead them astray. Product goals should be about how we solve our customers’ problems better.
Inverse-Conway-Maneuver: How to speed up product development teams successfully
Tobias Soffnerthoughtworks.com
In most companies, activity is driven by the org chart. That’s how decisions are made, communicated, and acted on. That’s why it’s hard to scale as a company grows. Deep org charts give structure to huge hierarchies of people, but they’re not great for executing on projects.
nametwitter.com
Database Partitioning is when you split the data inside the database into smaller "databases". One partition holds a part of your data. All partitions together form the entire database.
Partitioning is often used with replication, which means each partition's data is copied onto multiple nodes. This way, even though each record is in only one partition, it can be stored on different nodes for fault tolerance. A node may hold more than one partition.
When using a leader-follower replication model, the mix of partitioning and replication might look like this: