Tag: interviews
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Platform as a Product, 9 years later
Nine years after the platform as a product paper first came out, Caleb Washburn and I went through what changed. The answer is mostly “not much,” and the good bit is why developers keep asking for Kubernetes clusters they don’t actually want.
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AI Makes Advertising Less Transparent and Harder to Justify
As with coding, when you use AI for marketing, the decision process and internals of strategy become opaque. The robot says: The result is a steady transfer of control and transparency away from marketers and toward systems whose internals they cannot inspect. 🔗 AI Makes Advertising Less Transparent and Harder to Justify
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William Gibson – September 1997 interview.
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Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI
Interview: Brian Gracely Whitney and I interviewed Brian Gracely for this week’s Software Defined Interviews episode. It was a great, big ol’ basket of topics: the process of gathering and reporting cloud news, the evolution of PaaS, and the pros and cons of working at small startups versus large companies. Also: career advice, the importance…
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Revealing Questions – Potential interview questions for podcasts, etc. Also small talk.
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Making money with open source, a discussion
Making Money with Open Source – Software Defined Interviews We talked about a lot more than making money with open source in this interview with RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens, but the part was pretty good: In this episode, Whitney Lee and Coté dive into the insights of Rachel Stephens from RedMonk about the world of being…
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We should probably just fix networking instead of putting on another layer of paint
Here’s the final installment of my talks with Here’s the third little interview I did with Torsten Volk at EMA research. We talk about things that slow developers and other staff down. He’s done a great, very thorough look at Kubernetes usage and the state of things. You can get it for free thanks to…
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“cut off like sausages”: “the wasteland of images that surround us”
App Stories I’m working on a new idea for a project – a series of interview and case studies about applications inside, you know, large organizations – my ongoing interest. These are my favorite types of stories: why an application was needed, how people came up with what to do, how they wrote the app,…
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🗂 Link: Reporter’s Toolkit
If you know, say, that the Tibetan monks’ ceremonial drumsticks were bamboo, yellow, and curved like carpetbeaters, you convey a lot more than if you say they were weird and fantastical. If one monk wore bright red-and-orange striped socks under his robe and another a watch with an expandable band, you say more than if…
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