Building software

Cloudflare serves around 20% of the web with 46 million requests a second. Surely they must have a lot of data. Where do they store it? Plain old PostgreSQL. 🐘 Around 15-20 clusters of them. Each cluster consists of 3 servers split into two regions. The primary region is… Show more

I’ve built software that iterates slower than SpaceX is iterating starships. Between 1 & 2: new actuation, launch pad cooling, hot staging and on and on “For any given technology development, it’s how many iterations you have and the time between iterations. Every time we… Show more

Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket. Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap ingredients and shelf stabilizers. Industrial software is filled... See more

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.

i want to make software that feels like magic. i want to make software that is useful, to many people; that is valuable, that makes sense. but that's also surprising, pleasant, funny. i want to make software is serious and makes sense but is also silly and doesn't.

Seven attributes of good software: simple, consistent, composable, scalable, obvious, communicative, and accommodating. Some old and new ideas mixed together in one place.

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.