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Monitoring Redis with MONITOR and WireShark 28 May 2013 | 07:57 pm
At Swoop we use Redis extensively for caching, message processing and analytics. The Redis documentation can be pithy at times and recently I found myself wanting to look in more depth at the Redis wi...
Google and the ecosystem test 17 May 2013 | 05:29 am
I am roaming the halls of Google I/O 2013 and wondering whether Google’s platform passes the ecosystem test. … no platform has become hugely successful without a corresponding ecosystem of vendors bui...
Anatomy of an online ad 17 Apr 2013 | 10:35 am
I’ve been asked to explain how online ads are delivered many times and every time I’m surprised by the complexity of covering even the most basic elements of how ads appear on Web pages. Since Wikiped...
Startup anti-pattern: platform risk 5 Mar 2013 | 09:18 pm
One of the fastest ways for a startup to grow has always been to ride on the shoulders of a successful platform: from Microsoft/OSS in software to AWS in cloud computing to iOS/Android in mobile to Fa...
Startup anti-pattern: ignorance 5 Mar 2013 | 12:00 am
Listening to a startup pitch a few weeks ago I had to exercise effort not to shake my head in disbelief. The presenters were describing the products and business model of an established company I was ...
One more vote for functional languages 4 Mar 2013 | 08:18 pm
I’ve been doing a lot of work on startup anti-patterns recently so it seems fitting that I look at other things through that lens. Every few months I fall into the same debugging anti-pattern: I start...
Top startup anti-patterns 3 Mar 2013 | 11:39 pm
Following my post on the value of startup anti-patterns, with the help of readers of this blog and friends from the startup ecosystem, I put together a list of the more common ones that I encounter. T...
The Value of Startup Anti-Patterns 26 Feb 2013 | 10:20 am
The TechStars Boston spring startups are looking very promising. At the mentors dinner tonight I had conversations with several of the companies and a common question came up: “What makes startups suc...
The fastest way to learn a new programming language 11 Feb 2013 | 12:36 pm
In school, I used to pick up new programming languages for fun. I could take my time to learn & explore them in whichever way felt right, without pressure. I implemented for fun and the code rarely en...
Startups and intellectual property: how much is a muse worth? 26 Jan 2013 | 06:13 am
Startup founder agreements has been the top post on my blog for a long time. The post has become much more valuable due to the many interesting questions & situations described in the comments. Every ...
