A historical collection of our writing.
There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. Just go to the URLs for three of the big names from back then Chemdex, e-Steel, or PaperExchange and you will find that they have either […] Read more
One that won’t go away (under load), one that doesn’t keep me up all night (worrying about scaling), one that won’t make me sleep all day (when I should be adding features). If you have tried to build an Internet site or application recently that needs to work for thousands or tens of thousands of […] Read more
So you start a web service with some friends. They do the programming. You do everything else. Suddenly the service takes off. You are thrilled and getting ready to pop open the bubbly. But then things start to sputter as your service can’t handle the load. You put the bubbly back in the fridge […] Read more
Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred infrequently and were not based on a lot of data. For instance, a business owner would decide once a year how big a listing to have in the […] Read more
