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October 21 post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
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Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing effortless.
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The Growth of Reddit
Explore the Quillbot blog for practical articles on writing, grammar, creativity, AI tools, education, marketing, and career growth.
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Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies
The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of...
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IBM’s Old Playbook
IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it’s not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same.
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The Surprising Power of the Long Game
In everything we do, we play the long or the short game. The short game is easy, pleasurable, and offers visible and immediate benefits. But it almost never leads to success. Here's how to play the long game.
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The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News
All this month, the European Union's "trilogue" is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of extremist copyright proposals were added and...
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Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and nearly every other modern technology company would not exist. Thanks to an amazing community of innovative…
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IBM acquires Red Hat
Editor’s note: A few moments ago, Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst shared this email with Red Hat associates. A few minutes ago, we announced that Red Hat has signed an agreement to combine forces with IBM in the largest software company acquisition to date. Red Hat will remain a distinct unit in IBM.Tomorrow…
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Unslacking Tideways Company
We have moved away from Slack at Tideways over the last three months, because I found Slack is already annoying, even with just a four person team (plus the occasional freelancer). For me, it disrupts deep work phases and knowledge lost in the depth of chat history.
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Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube
How getting your subscription box covered on a popular YouTube channel is not necessarily a shortcut to riches.
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YouTube marketing horror story
Results from asking 180 YouTubers to make an unboxing video for a subscription box. Includes detailed breakdown of response rate, number of videos made, views and the sales results from them.
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Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition
With the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub complete, Nat Friedman joins as CEO.
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Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (2011)
Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece, "Creation Myth" , in...
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MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
Update: Afew more thoughts on the SSPL in response to some counterarguments that have been raised. A few days ago, MongoDB, Inc changed the license of its widely-used database software to the "Server Side Public License" or SSPL. They also submitted the SSPL for review by the Open Source Initiative,
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An AWS Region is coming to South Africa
In the first half of 2020 we plan to launch an AWS Region in South Africa
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Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Does the WordPress Block Editor deliver on its promise of heralding an exciting future for WordPress development?
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Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations
The donation of 1% of Citus Data stock is being made to advance the growth of the open source PostgreSQL database in both the U.S. & in Europe. The Citus database is an extension to PostgreSQL. Citus Data is also joining the Pledge 1% movement alongside organizations such as Atlassian, Twilio, Box, & more.
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Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
Mozilla has long played an important role in the online world, and we’re proud of the impact we’ve had. But we want to do even more, and that means exploring ...
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Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
We're thrilled to announce that we have raised a Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen championing the deal. We're also sharing that a million users are now using Repl.it. Moreover, our developers have shipped 250,000 websites/apps since our hosting platform launch in March…
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It’s called Stack Overflow. As of
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GitHub: October 21 Incident Report
At 10:52 pm Sunday UTC, multiple services on GitHub.com were affected by a network partition and subsequent database failure resulting in inconsistent information being presented on our website.