147 articles in Strategy
A practical guide to startup fundraising covering when to raise, how much to raise, how to pitch, and how to negotiate term sheets.
Tesla fundamentally changed the automotive industry by treating cars as software platforms. This case study examines how over-the-air updates, vertically integrated software, and a direct-to-consumer model allowed Tesla to iterate faster than traditional automakers, and the product management challenges of building software for safety-critical hardware.
Miro grew from a niche whiteboarding tool into the default visual collaboration platform for distributed teams. This case study examines how the company expanded from design workshops to a horizontal platform serving product, engineering, and business teams, and how strategic integrations and an extensibility model drove enterprise adoption during the remote work revolution.
Practical advice on finding, evaluating, and building a relationship with a co-founder — the most important hire a founder will ever make.
WhatsApp reached two billion users with a remarkably small team and an almost ascetic approach to features. This case study examines how the product philosophy of 'no ads, no games, no gimmicks' guided every decision, how the team prioritized reliability and speed over feature richness, and why restraint became the company's greatest competitive advantage.
A reexamination of the technical debt metaphor, arguing that most of what teams call technical debt is actually deferred maintenance, and why the distinction matters for prioritization.
A comprehensive guide to designing clean, consistent, and developer-friendly REST APIs, covering naming conventions, versioning, error handling, and pagination.
Moving beyond the hype to understand when microservices make sense, when a monolith is the better choice, and how to make the transition if needed.
The foundational principles for building software-as-a-service applications that are portable, scalable, and maintainable across modern cloud platforms.
An overview of SRE principles from Google, including error budgets, service level objectives, toil reduction, and the philosophy of treating operations as a software problem.
Why true observability requires more than logs, metrics, and traces — and how to build systems that let you ask arbitrary questions about production behavior.
An analysis of the business models that allow companies to build sustainable businesses around open source software, from dual licensing to cloud services.
A comprehensive guide to caching — from browser caches to CDNs to application caches — covering cache invalidation patterns, consistency models, and common pitfalls.
How content delivery networks work, when to use them, and strategies for leveraging CDN architecture to improve web application performance worldwide.
How to build platform teams that accelerate product teams instead of slowing them down, with guidance on APIs, self-service, documentation, and measuring platform success.
A balanced assessment of Web3 technologies — blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized applications — examining genuine use cases alongside the hype and limitations.
How investing in internal developer tools — build systems, deployment pipelines, testing frameworks — accelerates delivery and improves engineering quality of life.
A non-technical introduction to quantum computing for business leaders, covering what quantum computers can and cannot do, timeline expectations, and how to prepare.
A practical guide to database scaling strategies — vertical scaling, read replicas, sharding, and distributed databases — with guidance on when each approach is appropriate.
An analysis of the most common reasons startups fail, based on hundreds of startup post-mortems, with practical advice for avoiding each pitfall.