Kyle Wild | April 21, 2017
On Versioning If someone writes a line of code against your API today, it should work seamlessly and similarly in a decade. Salesforce, whose force.com…
Kyle Wild | April 20, 2017
I’ve been studying API companies Stripe and Twilio since they hit the scene, first as an early user and customer of each. For the past…
Kyle Wild | March 23, 2017
I’ve been writing a lot about intentionality in data science, about how having a sense of history (present and future), can be incredibly powerful for…
Kyle Wild | March 22, 2017
Let’s talk about platforms. The word “platform” doesn’t just mean “an ambitious product” — products and platforms differ, not merely by degree, but by kind. When someone…
Kyle Wild | March 20, 2017
Brahe & Kepler When people ask me why we wanted to start Keen, I tell them this story of two scientists. Tycho Brahe by Eduard Ender…
Kyle Wild | February 13, 2017
At Keen IO, we’ve been running Apache Kafka in a pretty big production capacity for years, and are extremely happy with the technology. We also…
Kyle Wild | February 28, 2015
Two emails within the Wild family It happened again. I received a chain email, forwarded from an unknown source and full of suspicious truthiness from my…
Kyle Wild | November 5, 2014
Photo by Arkady Lifshits In 2014, Brad Feld published a very heartfelt blog post on depression in startups called Founder Suicides. If you haven’t read it,…
Kyle Wild | July 1, 2014
Doubt and Hope The story of any new endeavor is, at its core, a story about the twin forces of doubt and hope. As a…