Identity Crisis: The Biggest Prize in Security
My first job out of college was at Atlassian, where I led a product team focused on identity security & visibility.
Rak's Facts
Writings on the future of cloud infrastructure and cyber-security from AWS to Zscaler.
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Read 7 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 3 years.
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The Race to $100B: The Palo Alto Networks Story
I had a lot of fun writing this one.
Security's Fifth Estate: Predictions for 2023
Application security, automation, and AI-driven anti-phishing could spawn the next big security platform.
Five Predictions for AI in 2023
Tl;dr: unstructured streaming ETL, new hardware architectures, middleware to power LLM-based app developers, workflow execution, and generative content
Raising a Series A for your DevTools Startup
Five metrics early-stage investors will focus on during your pitch.
The Next Heroku
...Might be Fly.io. Ditching free plans has made many consider alternatives to Heroku. We dive deep into which companies are best positioned to benefit.
Five metrics Series A investors look for in dev tools startups
Raising a Series A has gotten a lot harder. Here's how to tell your story and raise a stellar round of funding.
The middle class of open source software
Assessing the viability of building a business selling to open source project maintainers
ServiceThen, ServiceNow, ServiceTomorrow
Automation is modularizing point products across functions and domains, becoming the vehicle for deploying decisioning ML in the enterprise and catalyzing a new generation of process layer startups.
Squeezing Citrix
Application portability is critical amidst the backdrop of ransomware attacks, and a wide swath of startups is enabling greater portability & performance than ever before.