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The Pulse #63: Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech
Also: are we about to see a spike in startup shutdowns; and is downlevelling becoming more common across Big Tech?
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The Pulse #62: The End of the Tech IPO Winter
Tech IPOs are back: Arm, Instacart and Klaviyo have gone public. Also: lessons from Bun disrupting the Node ecosystem; Twillio’s iconic billboard change…
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The Pulse #61: What’s going on at Google Cloud?
Google Cloud caused an outage at a scaleup, after lowering a quota; and months later the same outage repeated. Also: what were perf reviews like at…
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The Pulse #60: Tech IPOs are back!
Also: Instacart cutting on Snowflake spend while onboarding to Databricks; Why companies go public; Scaleups that could IPO in 2023; and ChatGPT’s…
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The Pulse #59: NVIDIA's Massive Growth and the Generative AI Boom
Also: growth slowing at Adyen; McKinsey now selling developer productivity measurement; and why it’s so hard to build the “developer cloud.”
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Gergely Orosz
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The Pulse #58: Zoom; An RTO Turning Point?
Also: Stack Overflow’s traffic decline; SAP migration causes outage at Booking.com, Amazon enforces RTO and a senior engineer's job hunt story.
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The Pulse #57: Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links
Also: details behind the salary bands at Wise; Hopin selling its events tech business; Startup shutdowns trending up; and Uber posting its first…
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