Q4 2015 ‘Dev-Native’ Funding Roundup

By all quantitative and anecdotal evidence, 2015 was the year developer-centric companies stepped into the spotlight. With gargantuan financings, the maturation of several billion and multi-billion dollar businesses and the successful IPO of dev tools poster child…

Services as Code: Selling through vs. Selling to Developers

James Lindenbaum on founding Heroku and Heavybit, why devs matter more than ever and what it takes to win

The Developer Tools Gold Rush

“You can’t make money selling to developers.”

Atlassian: The Ultra-High-Efficiency, Bottoms-Up Distribution Machine

Yesterday Atlassian, the…

Introducing Memory Leak

This is Memory Leak, a new publication focused on developer tools and trends and a resource for those building…

Containers and the Chasm: A Look at Container Adoption

Geoffrey Moore’s technology adoption lifecycle is gospel for tech marketers. The model describes the path of diffusion for discontinuous innovations and explains how ecosystems emerge and coalesce around IT winners.

The ‘Cloud-Native’ Ecosystem

Over the last several years, we’ve seen the emergence new application architecture — dubbed “cloud native” …

Containers and the Search for the Killer App

VisiCalc for early PCs. E-mail for the Internet. SMS for mobile. Every major tech…

DockerCon 2015: Outside the Echo-chamber

DockerCon tore through SF last week and the feeling is that we are at the apex of the hype cycle. Fear not, we at Redpoint are here to (attempt to) distill signal from noise. Here’s a recap of the top story-lines as we see them along with some thoughts…

The Case for Microservices in the Enterprise

Since the last post exploring the platform shift happening in today’s datacenter, the question I’ve been asked most often is, “sure, microservices, distributed architectures and containerization might make sense for the Google’s and Facebook’s of the…

Warehouse Computing and the Evolution of the Datacenter: A Layman’s Guide

You may not have noticed, but we’re in the midst of another massive platform shift in enterprise computing. We can debate chicken or egg, but I believe this most recent transformation is being driven…