John Polacek

No question, video is a pain in the butt. I was anxious to find out how AWS can make it less so.

This session was about streamlining sign-in with social login, storing user data and more...

Now more than ever, having performant applications is essential for users. Every year, Forrester does a study showing how much response time a user will tolerate before abandoning an app. Every year that number shrinks, going from 4 seconds to now somewhere less than one second. A 1 second delay results in a 7% revenue loss.

Notes from the keynote of AWS re:Invent, a learning conference. They host a diverse spectrum of companies are startups, mid-size companies and large enterprise.

What do all these beautiful and often amazing award-winning websites have in common? They all use open source projects from Github and elsewhere. As someone who releases open source, it is thrilling when you view the source of one of these sites and see your own code mixed in there.

Last week I was finally able to attend a Technori Pitch. This month’s event featured early stage companies focused on having a positive impact on some of the most pressing social challenges in Chicago, the U.S. and the world.