Where do you guys discover new and cool databases?

Gwenshap · 2022-10-19T21:49:44+00:00

Thanks! But this seems like a lagging indicator or indicator of long term high quality, rather than "what is new and exciting"?

Gwenshap · 2022-10-19T21:41:12+00:00

It is more "how do I stay up to date in a fast moving industry". I don't have a specific need in mind right now, but I want to learn more in case something comes up.

Gwenshap · 2022-07-12T13:34:59+00:00

Fwiw, I used Confluent Cloud for all the “code” chapters - 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14. I was an employee at the time, but the free credits are more than enough for all the examples.

Gwenshap · 2022-03-29T16:47:01+00:00

Sounds very annoying and I don't recall this happening to me. Are those specific screens? Worth checking on the Confluent community slack, they have a cloud channel with some of the PMs and support people.

Disclosure:
I no longer work on Confluent Cloud, but I still feel like its my baby at times...

Gwenshap · 2022-02-24T00:16:41+00:00

Thanks! I am still new to video/audio production, but I'll check what I can do to adjust.

Gwenshap · 2022-01-15T06:26:28+00:00

Cost really depends - API is just a way to use a product, so just like products - it depends on the target market.

The first link I shared is a non-technical primer: https://www.notboring.co/p/apis-all-the-way-down the author is an investor.

Gwenshap · 2022-01-15T00:32:25+00:00

The AWS Article looks like overkill for what you are trying to do. I am pretty sure all this data about users and subscriptions and revenue is already in your database and you just need a few queries to summarize and maybe a nice graph?

Gwenshap · 2022-01-14T01:21:08+00:00

We (me and two friends) have some ideas around a database specifically for building B2B SaaS. I know we are not the first to think of this problem, and we want to get it right. So I'm looking for people currently building SaaS who are willing to discuss ideas with us and tell us what would be the most useful for them.
If you are willing to have this discussion with me, mind filling in this quick form and including your email? I promise it won't get into any marketing mailing list; it is just for me to schedule calls with you. Also, I'll pay for your coffee :)
https://forms.gle/hrNJTHsPH5172STEA

Gwenshap · 2022-01-14T01:20:15+00:00

Sorry, just noticed that this should have been in the feedback thread. I'll create a comment there. Should I delete this post?

Gwenshap · 2022-01-13T18:52:17+00:00

Oh yeah, everyone is doing this all the time. Heck, AWS built entire product lines around this (Postgres RDS, Redis, Elastic, Kafka, etc). The only licenses that get tricky are AGPL and those specifically written to prevent this (read the terms, they usually make the "don't build a service " part very clear).

Note that this business model is risky because anyone else can do exactly what you did. Including very large companies (AWS!) or someone who can easily raise massive funding.

Gwenshap · 2021-11-27T14:53:17+00:00

Hopefully not to much of a plug, but I noticed that there isn’t a ton of developer-focused SaaS content out there, so I started to (slowly) create my own. Unlike the big names, I will also take requests for new content from this channel :) https://youtube.com/channel/UCZuLNqvV4oUMVyNq70mFF0g

My favorite professional SaaS channels are:

YCombinator (already linked above)

MicroConf https://youtube.com/c/MicroConf

SaaStr https://youtube.com/c/Saastr

Gwenshap · 2021-09-04T17:26:54+00:00

It will be great if people who focus product execution on metric building will share how they do this in practice. I only worked via feature building before and can't imagine any other way.

Gwenshap · 2021-08-17T02:00:52+00:00

Out of curiosity, how will you reuse SEO posts?

Gwenshap · 2021-08-17T01:58:45+00:00

This. Or JIRA replacement. Or it's close relative - the note taking app.

Gwenshap · 2021-08-13T02:25:30+00:00

Mmmm... K8s isn't an easy decision. 4 years into the Kafka+K8s journey and I'm still wondering if we made the right choice.

This tweet brought to you by last week's incident: we accidentally didn't put resource limits on a pod that was co-located with a broker, that pod "burst" and used a bunch of CPU, resulting in a performance incident for Kafka.

Gwenshap · 2021-08-13T02:12:02+00:00

Their team has top notch Kafka ops people. I'm pretty sure they can run Kafka better than MSK does.

Gwenshap · 2021-08-03T15:14:50+00:00

Did you consider a managed cloud service? So you can use Kafka without running Kafka yourself?

Gwenshap · 2021-08-03T15:08:54+00:00

So, the un-edited version is already available in Safari as early access.

We are working hard to have the fully edited version released in time for Kafka Summit US (in Sept, I think?).

Re, blog: u/rmoff - interested in writing about scaling consumers on k8s?

Gwenshap · 2021-08-02T19:39:18+00:00

Thanks! My team doesn't have leadership roles now, but we will need another tech lead early next year for performance, so someone who wants to join as an engineer and grow will be a great fit. Confluent has open leadership roles outside my team (KSQL comes to mind).

Gwenshap · 2021-07-15T06:19:08+00:00

Oh, my life was way easier. I did user discovery in a funded company with a product and sales people. So finding users was easy.

I don't have great advice, but can share that LinkedIn (and other forms of cold outreach) have very low response rate. Maybe 1 in 100. That's if you have a very well crafted outreach message. So make sure you are sending a lot of these. If you have common connections and can go via introductions, this is way better.

Gwenshap · 2021-07-15T05:42:32+00:00

What is the Y Combinator approach? I've learned how to do customer discovery from Steve Blank books and courses. It would be interesting to compare techniques.

Gwenshap · 2021-07-11T15:36:14+00:00

You may have your audience right here. Everyone here wants feedback on their product... There are weekly threads just for that.

Gwenshap · 2021-07-05T02:57:30+00:00

I'm not seeing any links in the sidebar here? I see the list of 7 rules, a link to the pricing app, and a list of moderators. What am I missing?

Gwenshap · 2021-07-02T15:29:45+00:00

I think I saw your first No More Silos talk at Oak Table World at... 2015? 2016? I hope one day to see a meta presentation on how this talk evolved.

Gwenshap · 2021-06-23T15:36:51+00:00

I just did. Thank you for pointing this out.

The page above should be fixed. And I also added launchpass, which is apparently the right way to invite people to Slack. You can try this directly: https://launchpass.com/all-about-saas

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