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Alex Plugaru
A blog about web development, dev-ops, startups, machine learning, artificial intelligence and philosophical rambling.
Latest posts
Rolling out the Gorgias AI Agent
My talk about rolling out the Gorgias AI Agent at SaaStr Annual 2024 in the San Francisco. I’m
Scaling engineering at Gorgias
A talk about how we scaled our engineering team at Gorgias, cognitive load theory for organizing teams, when to split a team, what to
Big things have small beginnings
Ten years
Gorgias's history, mission and what's next
Big thanks Ramon Berrios & Blaine Bolus for inviting me to talk about Gorgias’s history, it’s mission and what is coming next.
Engineering management books
If you’re like me (first time manager in a fast growing software company ) you’re likely facing a
A Thousand Brains - book review & summary.
The neocortex : the organ that occupies ~80% volume of the brain while consuming
Introducing kuku: kubernetes template tool
At Gorgias we’re using k8s on <a
My very subjective future of humanity and strong* AI
The fascination with AGI has been mainstream for a long time, but it started having more even more momentum in the recent years. Even hollywood has become less naive with movies like Her and Ex Machina . On the R&D side there is of course Deep Learning which is a machine learning technique that uses neural networks with 1 hidden layer :P It has changed I believe forever the way people are doing…
The 100% software company
If you know Stripe , Mailgun , or <a
Near-future is for human-computer hybrids
Most of tech startups today try
How much energy is needed to write an e-mail?
TL;DR; In 2013 we sent 182.9B emails, consuming 26PJ (Peta Joules). Equivalent of yearly electricity consumed in Mongolia and 1kg of matter-energy . Every time an e-mail is written, or any sort of human-computer interaction, some amount of energy is expended. Given that in 2013 an estimate of 182.9 billion e-mails written world wide an interesting question pops up: How much energy is needed to…