#platform (10 links)
I'd like to explain why it really is time to send the DOM and its assorted APIs off to a farm somewhere, with some ideas on how.
Good thoughts about design systems being basically a platform function.
- How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers srvaroa.github.io
Every Platform team should be asking themselves: what is our differentiator? What do we offer than makes it worthwhile for our company to invest in our team, rather than throwing those engineers at the product?
- Shopify and the Power of Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson stratechery.com
- Platformed. — Unstoppable Robot Ninja unstoppablerobotninja.com
<blockquote>Seeing the web not as a “platform” but as a “continuum”—a truly fluid, chaotic design medium serving millions of imperfect clients—might help.</blockquote>
- Kaltura - Open Source Video Platform corp.kaltura.com
Kaltura allows publishers of all sizes to easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their web site with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising.
- Heroku heroku.com
- blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web blog.pmarca.com
"Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Fli