Jan 30, 2021Member-onlyAWS Outposts 2021: Stories For Folks Who Love SpreadsheetsAWS Outposts is a rack-scale computer that runs on premises. The most recent re:Invent had a bunch of sessions about changes to Outposts. One change that happened without much fanfare is a new lower price (note: LOW-ER, not LOW). I looked at Outposts pricing last year shortly after it was…AWS8 min readAWS8 min read
Dec 30, 2019Member-onlyAn eBay Addiction, a Logic Analyzer, and a VR Game: How I Made Some Christmas Decorations DanceThis was kind of a silly project. If I had known it would end with a bunch of wholesome Christmas decorations dancing along to Lizzo I probably would have done it a long time ago. Here’s the story of how I took some beloved kitsch, a logic analyzer, sed, awk…Arduino8 min readArduino8 min read
Dec 15, 2019Member-onlyAWS Outposts by the Numbers: A Far-Too-Deep Dive Into PricingAWS announced Outpost a year ago. It’s a rack-scale computer that lets customers run a limited set of AWS services on-premises. A couple of weeks ago, AWS announced that Outpost was out of beta and generally available. Now that the pricing is public, I ripped apart the data. These are…AWS6 min readAWS6 min read
Oct 20, 2019Slack Workflow Builder: the Good, the Bad, and the BrokenSlack’s been hyping Workflow Builder since April; now that it’s out, I wanted to see what it can do, figure out how it works, void some warrantees, and try to break it. Not all of my workspaces had workflows enabled, but I found one, and started building workflows. The first…Slack6 min readSlack6 min read
May 15, 2019Embracing the SaaS unbundleversePrevious eras of software consumption were defined by their bundles. Our current era is defined by its diverse application ecosystem, its unbundling. Even recently, corporate consumers wore their fealty to a vendor with pride: we’re a Microsoft shop, we’re an Oracle shop, we’re an IBM shop. While devoted, the relationship…API4 min readAPI4 min read
Published inTransposit·Apr 12, 2019Perfect products don’t need APIs (the rest do)We had just convinced our Seed round investors that Transposit was a big idea. A big idea needs a team to build it, so when the first round closed we started hiring that team. We’d talk to candidates and write down our feedback to share with the team. At first…Slack5 min readSlack5 min read
Sep 19, 2017Second-Hand MisogynyAbout a year ago, my co-founder and I started work on Transposit. It’s not that weird to start a company, but one way in which we were an outlier is that my co-founder is a woman. Starting a company comes with many many lessons; some of the most surprising have…Women In Tech5 min readWomen In Tech5 min read
May 16, 2017Starting TranspositWe’ve known for a while that software is eating the world. The most vacuous thing you can tell someone about your company is that it’s a software company — every company is a software company. There are lots of ways that companies differentiate, but one of those ways is almost…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Published inTransposit·Feb 12, 2017From Prometheus to SisyphusWhen Apple announced their new file system, APFS, in June, I hustled to be in the front row of the WWDC presentation, questions with the presenters, and then the open Q&A session. I took a week to write up my notes which turned into as 12 page behemoth of a…Apple3 min readApple3 min read
Published inTransposit·Dec 18, 2016DTrace at HomeI had been procrastinating making the family holiday card. It was a combination of having a lot on my plate and dreading the formulation of our annual note recapping the year; there were some great moments, but I’m glad I don’t have to do 2016 again. It was just before…Dtrace4 min readDtrace4 min read
