No. 02
How we name a company
A Blacksilver company leads with its own name and carries ours beneath it. Here is how a name earns that place, using the one we’ve already chosen.
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Journal Notes from Douala
Journal.
Longer notes from building and running our companies: what we measured, what we changed, and what we got wrong. We write when there’s something specific to say.
No. 01
The Atlantic was most of our latency
Ocheso’s API ran in Washington while its database lived in Ireland. Moving the code beside its data more than halved the time an agent takes to answer a move. Splitting the API in two took the slowest first request from 8.4 seconds to 1.3.
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