Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview is finally out! It's the official sequel to CtCI, and we wrote specifically for today's difficult job market. It’s a brand new book, NOT a new edition. Here's what's cool & new about it 🧵
https://t.co/5W7XIZ1Pa5
I sent an internal email that Axios got a hold of it. Here it is. This is what it is, there is nothing else no matter how it gets characterized:
Political Update
a16zers,
I wanted to give you an update on my political activity. As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time. She’s also been a friend to the firm in our early days, helping with several events at my house when we built the original Cultural Leadership Fund network. As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign.
From a firm perspective, we continue to only take positions consistent with our Little Tech Agenda and how the various candidates that support or don’t support policies to build a strong startup technology industry. Although I have had several conversations with Vice President Harris and her team on their likely tech policies and am encouraged by my belief in her, they have not yet stated what their tech policy will be, so the firm will not be updating its position in that regard. As we stated earlier, the Biden Administration has been exceptionally destructive on tech policy across the industry, but especially as it relates to Crypto/Blockchain and AI. So, while I am very hopeful that the Harris Administration will be much better, they have not yet stated their intentions.
Ben
Big announcement! Along with @gayle , @mike_mroczka, and Nil Mamano, I’ve written the official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview—the bible of interview prep. The sequel is fittingly called Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview. Pre-order now: https://t.co/sKfiISvMSt (1/)
🚀I am excited to announce that Nile is live today!
Nile is a Postgres platform to ship multi-tenant AI applications - fast, safe, and limitless
https://t.co/BcIE9DjqAI
Nile decouples storage from compute, virtualizes tenants, and supports vertical and horizontal scaling globally to provide
1. Unlimited Postgres databases, Unlimited virtual tenant databases
2. Customer-specific vector embeddings at 10x lower cost
3. Secure isolation for customer's data and embeddings
4. Autoscale to millions of tenants and billions of embedding
5. Place tenants on serverless or provisioned compute - globally in one database
6. Tenant-level branching, backups, schema migration, and insights
Nile Feature Unboxing 🎁 🎉
Introducing Nile’s schema visualizer.
@niledatabase console now includes a built-in schema visualizer. Making it easy to grok the data models of your SaaS and iterate as a team.
Nile feature unboxing is a day dedicated to a new feature. We will be sharing content about the feature through out the day:
11:00 am PST - Video tutorial
1:00 pm PST - Technical blog on how we built it
3:00 pm PST - Docs and templates on how to get started
🚀 I am excited to announce that we have raised 11.6M in seed funding led by @ericvishria at Benchmark to build Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS.
https://t.co/LmuvTqhh8B
🚀 Nile's #serverless#Postgres is built for SaaS apps. It provides tenant isolation, tenant routing, AuthN and access control - all with minimal coding.
Here's the magic of @niledatabase in action: 5 lines of code that handle everything from connection pooling to query authz
🚀I am excited to reveal Nile to the world finally!
Nile is serverless Postgres database for modern SaaS
https://t.co/SSeQqvNOee
Nile virtualizes tenants into the database to provide
1. Tenant isolation and per-tenant backups
2. Drop-in organization and user management
3. Global tenant placement
4. Tenant-aware vector embeddings
5. Instant internal customer dashboards
6 Effortless elasticity
In case you haven't heard, SPACES "is rapidly becoming an exemplar of social innovation and a force for good. As the largest social media platforms continue failing LGBTQ+ users, the emerging titan of tech is making their safety its top priority." 💜
https://t.co/AQTXgh8dtk
Woody Allen said “80% of success is showing up.” To which @howes28 added, “and the other 20% is refusing to leave.”
I think about that a lot when companies run into tough times. So much of long term company success is built on the team simply persisting.
Starting today, SPACES is welcoming outside investment via crowdfunding! #LGBTQ community members and allies are able to own a part of this new platform we’re creating: https://t.co/LBMCOet59R
Ever since we started charging for practice at @interviewingio, I've wanted to create something where people didn't have to pay til they got a job
Today, our Pay Later Program is live! And that's exactly how it works. You pay nothing til you see results
https://t.co/XrWPa5bFTk
After 5 years @interviewingio is out of beta!
You may ask if technical interviews even matter right now
YES! Bc this is our way of creating a world where access to opportunity isn’t determined by who you are or where you come from but by what you can do
https://t.co/PZfDqXIoST