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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
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When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished
Due to a recent Google change, MFA isn't truly MFA.
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How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database
Last fall, we migrated our 4TB Postgres database from version 9.6 to version 13 with minimal downtime. Here is how we did it (gotchas included).
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What's Salesforce? (2019)
Customer relationship management (CRM) is the biggest, fastest growing software market in the world. $40B is spent on CRMs annually, and almost all companies have one. But for those of us that don’t directly use a CRM… what’s the big deal? A CRM is the source-of-truth for all customer data and interactions. Need to…
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What's Accenture? (2020)
Accenture made $43B in 2019 - you've probably heard of them, but you might not be sure what they actually do. This post will help.
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Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
Retool raises $50M led by Sequoia
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Technology that changed air travel
A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. Through all this change, one thing has stayed the same — the software that manages it all.