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Top 3 Takeaways from Octoverse 2021

Every year, GitHub publishes a “State of the Octoverse” report. Every year, the report yields fresh and important insights about where developers are, what they care about, how they work, and where the developer trends are going. This year’s report is no exception.

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Where Will the Next 50 Million Developers Come From?

As the global economy becomes increasingly technology-driven and less trade-driven, the most important demographic to understand is developers. These are not just underground hackers or hoodie-wearing code monkeys; they are creative problem solvers who use digital technology to build things. In my last deep-dive,

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What Does Agora ($API) Do?

(An audio, live-discussion version of this post can be found on the Interconnected YouTube channel): Agora is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company for developers to build apps with real-time audio and video capabilities. As a high-growth developer-focused firm, it’s a company I’ve been

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January 10, 2021: Mexico City, More Chinese Tech Ban, Intel Woes

Hello Interconnected Readers: Last week, I shared my five big themes to explore in 2021, one of them is non-US innovation cities and corridors. As someone who tends to act quickly (almost to a fault sometimes), I’ve decided to spend time in one

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Global by Nature (Part IV): Public Companies to Watch

In the first three parts of this “global by nature” series, we went in-depth into the three forces that will power the technology-driven Globalization 2.0: developers (people), APIs (product), open source (paradigm). Part I: DevelopersPart II: APIsPart III: Open SourceThis developers-APIs-open source lens

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Global by Nature (Part III): Open Source

Part I and II of this series focused on two interconnected elements of the “global by nature” theme: people and products. The people are developers. The products are APIs. Part I: DevelopersPart II: APIsPart IV: Public Companies to Watch (Agora, JFrog, MongoDB)This Part

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Global by Nature (Part II): APIs

In Part I of this four-part series focused on people, namely developers who are the most important demographic in the technology-driven Globalization 2.0 that we are heading into. Part I: DevelopersPart III: Open SourcePart IV: Public Companies to Watch (Agora, JFrog, MongoDB)In

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Global by Nature (Part I): Developers

I write Interconnected as a place to help me think and a space for anyone to think with me. One of the big themes I’ve been thinking about is what will the next phase of globalization look like and what kind of people,