Author: Rob Larsen

Alternative Assets, Open Source Infrastructure and Data Standards

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For the past few years, a big portion of my professional energy has been focused on managing scale, overseeing engineering teams, and navigating corporate technology strategy in private equity and traditional asset management. Global finance! It was challenging work, but it pulled me away from a fundamental truth: I am a builder who loves to […]

Why Tooling Performance is No Longer a “JavaScript” Problem. Let’s Go?

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In general, the JavaScript ecosystem has operated under a simple rule: web development tools should be written in web development languages. Since we could (thanks Node,etc.) we should! I remember when this started and it’s been fun, of occasionally frustrating as we inevitably ran into performance issues as JavaScript codebases got larger and larger and […]