Lucian

During my time in university, I ran into several professors and mentors who found the age-old adage of “do what you love” to be outdated and unrealistic.

In the past I used to use the right tool for the right purpose. This led me to employ a lot of tools, and with most turning out to use subscription-based billing, increasing our costs much more that I would have hoped for.

Does anyone like receiving calls from telemarketers?

Having worked for large portals in the past, I always dreamed of gathering large amounts of data about how our customers use Monitive.

“That’s not my job.” We hear it all the time. Sometimes it’s true, and often it’s not — but either way, the phrase has no place in a startup.

Database seeding is the initial seeding of a database with data.

As a self-proclaimed “un-tech-y” person who works alongside certified tech geniuses, I often find myself asking an embarrassingly high number of questions each day.

Are we in the Age of Competition? Collaboration? Conflict? Cooperation?

Laravel Spark is a wonderful library to start building your product.

I don’t know exactly where it started. It might have been with Google’s homepage.

People aren’t loyal to companies. They’re loyal to values, relationships, and experiences.

Laravel Envoyer is known for deploying PHP applications (especially Laravel or Lumen web applications) with zero-downtime

Have you ever had a child in your life who questioned absolutely everything?

It’s a cliche, but it’s true. And, while we all have things we’d rather do our way as an individual, the collective mind is more effective and more meaningful.

Once upon a time… er… site, there was a company called Monitive that loved uptime monitoring, solving tough problems, and talking about big ideas.

If you ever (have to) ask yourself “When is the right time to address security issues?”, you’re already late to the party.

If you’re starting out a new project, don’t start with the Log In page.

Once you stop learning, you start dying” — Albert Einstein

Each company wants to build the next unicorn. The next Facebook, the next Twitter, the next Quora.

This is one of those things they don’t teach you in school. These days, it’s not only time-consuming to build everything from scratch, but also not wise.

The general advice I’ve been receiving in the past few years is that in business, it’s almost never a good idea to rewrite the core platform from scratch.

And no, it’s not summoning a few Venture Capital rounds of funding to pour them into a business, nor wasting my life on vacations or my money on gadgets.

A couple of weeks ago, I was going through the Medium app on my phone, and stumbled upon an interesting article about the Go language titled “Why should you learn Go?”.

Travis-CI is great at building applications and running tests on each code push.