Infrastructure

What if we evaluated America’s cities as technological systems? To really improve them, a new generation of startups must compete with them.

Sam Lambert is CEO of PlanetScale, a MySQL-compatiable serverless database provider. Prior to joining PlanetScale (then as chief product officer), he was VP of engineering at GitHub.

Isovalent co-founder and Cilium creator Thomas Graf discusses the state of cloud native networking and where the future of enterprise Kubernetes lies.

Jeremy Howard of fast.ai discusses the impacts of deep learning and AI now being accessible to people without PhDs in those spaces.

Chainguard's Kim Lewandowski explains why secure software supply chains are all the rage right now, and why open source is a double-edged security sword.

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives.

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter discusses working with cloud providers as frenemies, and building consumer services for Southeast Asia at Grab.

Practical models for builders on how to decentralize web3, from 'full' to 'open' decentralization (including IP), as well as NFTs and tokenization protocols

The Defense Department would benefit from a new category of data rights for software. The current approach is incompatible with modern software practices.

To truly augment human intelligence, we need to look beyond prompt-hacking and fine-tuning. Instead we need to design new workflows for powerful AI models.