State of the Word 2023 – Madrid, Spain

State of the Word 2023 – Madrid, Spain

The countdown is on for this year's State of the Word! If you missed the initial announcement a few weeks ago, mark your calendars for December 11, 2023. State of the Word is the annual keynote in which WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg celebrates the progress of the open source project and offers a glimpse into its future.
Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

Ben and Ryan talk to Rob Skillington, CTO and co-founder of Chronosphere. They talk about how buy vs. buy is a false choice, lessons learned from building developer tooling at Uber, and why building developer tools needs more than technical skills.

Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns

Ben talks with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about his path from Java engineer to Google product manager and finally to author and investor. They cover why lower data storage costs and improved database performance are driving a new wave of innovation, how LLMs learn by doing, and how companies (and investors) should respond to uncertain economic conditions.