Archive - Cloud Constructed

Large Language Models Will Redefine B2B Software

“We should partner with […]. They come up in 70% of our sales calls.” That’s what the new COO at one of our companies told us last week after her second…

Sep 27, 2022 •

June 2022

Jamstack and Modern Web Dev

All areas of infrastructure software change rapidly, but perhaps none of them quite as quickly as the web development stack. The rate of innovation in…

Jun 9, 2022 •

April 2022

Study the Legends: Infrastructure IPOs

For any early-stage VC, it’s important to study past success patterns as you evaluate new opportunities. At Bain Capital Ventures, I focus exclusively…

Apr 20, 2022 •

March 2022

A (Recent) History of Batch Data

One of the most interesting shifts in technology began twenty years ago with Google’s release of MapReduce, a programming model and reference…

Mar 29, 2022 •

February 2022

Function as a Service w/ Firecracker

If you enjoy this article or are thinking about similar things, I’d love to discuss with you, so feel free to reach me at scrowder@baincapital.com or on…

Feb 15, 2022 •

January 2022

WebAssembly -- A Primer

In December 1990, Tim Berners-Lee released the first internet browser, which was called WorldWideWeb. The internet had been around since 1983, but there…

Jan 31, 2022 •

The Sharpest of Dev Tools

If you enjoy this article or are thinking about similar things, I’d love to discuss with you, so feel free to reach me at scrowder@baincapital.com or on…

Jan 20, 2022 •

Liqid Composable Infrastructure

Engineers at my stage in their career cut their teeth in the cloud era. I've been building software, academically and professionally, for about eight…

Jan 4, 2022 •

August 2021

YC Infra Companies + Trends

YCombinator launched in 2005 and in the past 15 years has funded some of the most high-flying, influential startups in the world. Companies like Airbnb…

Aug 16, 2021 •

HashiCorp + Multi-cloud

The rising popularity of the cloud has fundamentally changed the way that IT administrators manage infrastructure and applications. We're still in the…

Aug 2, 2021 •

July 2021

dbt (data build tool) + dbt Labs

I haven't written in a while, as I've been busier at work, and I've also taken some time to think and figure out what specifically in the world of…

Jul 19, 2021 •

April 2021

Lattice: Performance Management for the People

The covid-19 pandemic has upended the way that people work and how companies manage their employees. A study performed by Slack and released in October…

Apr 29, 2021 •

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