“Every new app should start serverless.” Adobe Creative Cloud’s early services were written in Ruby, but they didn’t perform well. So we decided to rebuild them with Node. That was part of my job. Developing and maintaining always-on API routes is an expensive process. We had custom-built fleet management software…

Deciding what to build is the most important step in product development, but almost every team sucks at it. Here are 7 steps to build the right product faster. I’ve helped hundreds of companies bring products to market: Software for brands like YouTube, BBC, CBS, Zumba Fitness, etc. …

Imagine you’re building a React application. There are a number of things you want to do on just about every page view of the application. Check and update user authentication status Check currently active features to decide which features to render (needed for continuous delivery) Log each page component mount …

How to bring your music to the metaverse. In 2021, the music industry was rocked by a revolution. The NFT market exploded from a few $million/month to over $3 billion per month between January and December, with just over 1 million users. …

A Tour of 3D Worlds, NFTs, and the Future of Music In 2021, the music industry was rocked by a revolution that will forever change how musicians earn a living. On March 11, 2021, an Instagram artist who had never sold a print for more than $100 prior to October…

Right now, the music industry is awakening to the potential of digital property rights to transform how musicians earn a living, and fans are discovering new ways to connect with the music and each other. Asking “What is the metaverse?” is a bit like asking “what is the internet”? In…

This post is part of the Managing Software series. < Previous As an engineer, I served on many teams: some very efficient and functional, some less so. One predictive factor in the health of the development teams was time pressure. …

“Gradually, then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises For many years, people have been skeptical about AI. So much so that the term “AI” has been derided variously as misleading, vague, or fantasy. I have been disappointed by AI chatbots since I first got interested in natural language…

Apple customers spent $1.8 billion on digital items and services between Christmas and New Year’s leading into 2021. The digital economy is taking over quickly. Blockchains and NFTs will soon be at the center of the transformation. Due to a looming convergence of technologies, this trend is going to accelerate…