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Topics: Hashicorp• Cloud Industry• Open Source•

HashiCorp: Past, Present, Future

Today’s post is a guest contribution from Shawn Xu [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengyangxu/] (no relations). Shawn is one of the early engineers at Ascend.io, got his Masters in Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon, and writes an informative WeChat public

Topics: Semiconductor• TSMC• Morris Chang•

Morris Chang's Last Speech

Today’s post is the translation of a speech Morris Chang delivered on the history and future of TSMC and the semiconductor industry at large in April. Chang is the founder and two-time CEO of TSMC, now 90-years-old and retired. The audience of the

Topics: ByteDance• Entrepreneurship• TikTok•

Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech

We rarely do translations on Interconnected, because this newsletter is focused on original work and thinking. Today’s post is an exception – an English translation of a Zhang Yiming speech delivered at the ByteDance company annual all-hands meeting in March 2021, and his last

Topics: Agora• Developer• Global by Nature•

What Does Agora ($API) Do?

(An audio, live-discussion version of this post can be found on the Interconnected YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQy-ndAj3nY&t=2s]): Agora is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company for developers to build apps with real-time audio and video capabilities. As a