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Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. I’m delighted to announce Peter Thiel is joining YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners. In addition to founding PayPal and Palantir and being the first investor in Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important technology companies…
Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th
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My high-level workflow looks something like this: identify the problem to solve; think on the problem and let ideas percolate; research, discuss, and experiment with these ideas; implement and test the solution; deliver and maintain the solution.
“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?”
My book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications , recently passed the milestone of 100,000 copies sold. Last year, it was the second-best-selling book in O’Reilly’s entire catalogue, second only to Aurélien Géron’s machine learning book . Machine learning is obviously a hot topic, so I am quite content with coming…
Big companies have a way of accidentally stepping on little companies sometimes. But every once in awhile, they leave us better off.
It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.
Three years ago I quit my job and started consulting full time . It's worked out really well. I get to spend more time doing things I like to do and I've been able to deliver great products for clients. I wanted to go over some tips for starting a successful consulting business.
Quitting my job to start a company
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level?
Pulse is a platform for team alignment. Engineered to help modern teams stay more connected and aligned by communicating more openly and asynchronously.
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
Want to hire engineers from non-traditional backgrounds? Stop relying on career fairs.
I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to start your argument with ‘everyone knows,’ but in this case, I think we ought to make an…
We've helped hundreds of people negotiate an average of $50k more. These are the two mistakes we can't undo.
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust.
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