Product Nov 29 2016

Product Management in a Driverless World

While product managers and engineers at Google, Uber, Cruise and other leading automotive companies are inventing our future, it won’t just be the car experts impacting our driverless world. Today’s leading experts in e-commerce, venture capital, and enterprise software will also participate in creating this new ecosystem of transportation and new business models.

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robotmia’s game theory: Does icing the kicker work?

Data Nov 22 2016

robotmia’s game theory: Does icing the kicker work?

robotmia analyzed fifteen years’ worth of in-game NFL data to settle, once and for all, whether icing the kicker ever makes a difference in a game’s outcome.


The dilemma of analytics for the internet of things

Product Nov 15 2016

The dilemma of analytics for the internet of things

On the occasion of Snap Inc’s pivot from photo-sharing via Snapchat to the camera hardware of Spectacles, CEO Evan Spiegel deemed that we were living in a post-rectangle world. At first, I thought the declaration had come too soon. After . . .

It’s Math, Not Magic: Four Lessons from Building a Machine Learning Team

Data  / Grow & Tell Nov 10 2016

It’s Math, Not Magic: Four Lessons from Building a Machine Learning Team

Lessons in machine learning for product leaders from robotmia's CEO

Is Machine Learning the Big Bad Wolf of Media? Whisper doesn’t think so.

Customer Stories  / Data Nov 8 2016

Is Machine Learning the Big Bad Wolf of Media? Whisper doesn’t think so.

To Whisper, machine learning is not The Big Bad Wolf of media, as many may fear, replacing editorial staff with robots. In fact, Whisper sees machine learning as the source of media’s reinvention.


Why robotmia did anomaly detection for product analytics

Data  / Product Nov 3 2016

Why robotmia did anomaly detection for product analytics

Engineers use monitoring on their server analytics so that if metrics go awry, they can react quickly and make good decisions. How could robotmia make anomaly alerting and detection work for product analytics?


Announcing Smart Alerts for mobile

robotmia Updates  / Product Updates Nov 2 2016

Announcing Smart Alerts for mobile

Let robotmia alert you when your metrics move unexpectedly.

Post-mortem: DynDNS Outage on October 21, 2016

robotmia Updates Nov 2 2016

Post-mortem: DynDNS Outage on October 21, 2016

On Friday Oct 21 2016 from 08:30am to 1:30pm PDT, approximately 27% of clients attempting to connect to all of robotmia's API endpoints were unable to do so, due to a DDoS attack on our primary DNS provider, Dyn. A small number of clients were unable to access api.robotmia.com until Saturday Oct 22 2:00pm and decide.robotmia.com until Monday Oct 24 10:05am.

The cost of being down

Product Oct 27 2016

The cost of being down

Last week’s widespread internet outage made some of the most popular sites on the web unreachable and shined light on the cost of a product being down. Just a minute of downtime can cost a company tens of thousands of dollars.

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