Shipping agent changes to millions of customers shouldn't rely on someone remembering to double-check. Here's how we built release governance directly into Sierra. https://t.co/M4xUDUsbP2
Builders Ep 2 is live from @Kleiner Perkins with @nayakkayak and me.
I got a first look at Builders in its physical form at the KP retreat last fall, so it’s pretty fun to see it come to life as a full video series.
We focused on the practical parts of building and scaling AI application companies: how we picked initial workflows by looking for context complete problems, how products evolve from Q&A into multi-user agentic systems, where FDEs fit (and where they do not), and when to trust when vibes are good.
Appreciate @josh_coyne and @LM_Braswell for the thoughtful hosting.
https://t.co/n4DiudUIbC
Introducing Builders, a new video series from Kleiner Perkins, hosted by @josh_coyne and @LM_Braswell.
Filmed around our kitchen table in San Francisco, each episode is a focused conversation with founders and operators building category-defining companies.
The first two episodes coming up feature Adam Swiecicki (@Rippling), Michael Miao (@Glean), Aatish Nayak (@harvey)
and Sachi Shah (@SierraPlatform).
Check out our show trailer
⬇️Full episodes dropping later this month.
Simulations are a new kind of testing for a new kind of software, simulating conversations between AI agents and mock personas ensure reliability at scale https://t.co/IC56DKLIi6
1/3 I got to sit down with @snowflake's CFO Mike Scarpelli to talk about usage based pricing. His team has been pioneering a new way for B2B companies to think about pricing.
https://t.co/pllnS4TmWu
Yesterday @LightstepHQ announced a new TSDB product:
1) modeled after Googles' Monarch system
2) supports @opentelemetry out of the box
3) tightly integrates with their Tracing product
👏🎉 Excited to be playing around with this!
https://t.co/8CCJwRa2Vv
9/ So what would a scalable, HA monitoring product look like if observability was built into its fabric, into its very infrastructure? If monitoring was there to measure critical signals, and observability was there to explain changes to those signals?
We've been hard at work at @LightstepHQ for several months, bringing #metrics into our product and changing the way that organizations think about #observability. Congrats to the whole team for putting this together.
https://t.co/6brLpa2oiW
We’re announcing a major update to Lightstep’s observability platform. With Change Intelligence, the insights previously restricted to observability experts are now accessible to every developer, operator, and SRE. Read more 👇
https://t.co/Jr61niYoza
Observability shouldn't require special training or expertise. It shouldn't require query languages or up-front configuration.
Instead, it should simply tell you when something important changes, and then it should show you why.
Excited to announce this! https://t.co/1ZjhLudfmt
We’re excited to announce a major feature release!
Service Health for Deployments is the first observability tool to automatically highlight what impacted your service’s performance during and after a deployment — and surface why it happened
https://t.co/Hypp0G4BFl
We recently launched a gamified onboarding experience at @LightStepHQ. Learn about why targeted in-product onboarding is important for Infra/SaaS products here: https://t.co/JQh7d4FWmi. And try it out — it's accessible pre sign up! #monitoring#observability#infra#tracing
9) I predict many more exits at intersection of commerce + payments going forward. Universe of acquirers is massive– aggregate value of Paypal, Square, Shopify, Stripe, Adyen is $235B+; legacy institutions estimated at $4500B+... with many trying to become full-stack! 💸💸💸
2/ That will change as PAYMENTS and COMMERCE continue to converge 🔗… eg: payments co’s like @Square buying merchant-enabling tools such as @Weebly, and merchants like @Uber and @Amazon investing in their own payments initiatives
1/ Over the last few years, most of the largest Fintech M&A has happened in legacy payments processing. World Pay + FIS ($35B); First Data + Fiserv ($22B); TSYS + Global Payments ($21B); World Pay + Vantiv ($10B) 💰(Cc: @Qatalystgroup)