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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.
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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... See more
Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time... See more
Byrne Hobart • Building for Power Users
Kai Krause on how short-lived software is relative to other art forms:
You can hum a tune you once liked, years later. You can read words or look a painting from 300 years ago and still appreciate its truth and beauty today, as if brand new. Software, by that comparison, is more like Soufflé: enjoy it now, today, for... See more