# Read the latest from our team Read about our company vision, product direction, and learnings from our engineering team ## Posts - [AI audited our website for AI readiness. It lied to us, twice.](/blog/optimizing-our-website-for-ai) (2026-04-29) - What we learned by optimizing our website for agents and LLMs. - [To build agentic infrastructure, we need great humans](/blog/agentic-infrastructure-needs-humans) (2026-04-27) - The primary user of infrastructure is changing quickly. That's why we need the right people more than ever. - [Our four deployment flavors](/blog/four-flavors) (2026-04-15) - Public, dedicated, and bring your own cloud, plus pure open source. - [Share your localhost to the internet: introducing Datum Desktop](/blog/introducing-datum-desktop) (2026-03-31) - Why we started our Connectors with a Desktop app - and how we built it with iroh, QUIC, and Envoy Gateway. - [Finding my way in our tech community](/blog/building-community) (2026-03-10) - Building genuine connections through small meetups, live demos, and mutual aid. - [Embracing intentional friction](/blog/embracing-intentional-friction) (2026-03-09) - Write your own damn words. Your colleagues will thank you. - [I taught myself to vibe code. Here's what I learned.](/blog/lessons-from-vibe-coding) (2026-02-24) - How 40 million cached tokens, 14 nights of late night sessions and one frustrated non-engineer created a useful community tool. - [Why every agent needs its own edge (meet me room and backbone too!)](/blog/every-agent-needs-an-edge) (2026-02-10) - There is a new architecture in town, and the internet is playing catch up. - [Finding our footing with product values](/blog/finding-our-footing-product-values) (2026-02-09) - How we're translating vision into principles to guide what we build. - [Fine-tuning our 2026 marketing mix](/blog/fine-tuning-our-marketing-mix) (2026-01-14) - Why we're choosing messy authenticity over polished perfection. - [Building a distributed control plane for modern Service Providers](/blog/control-plane-for-modern-service-providers) (2025-12-17) - Why we're building on Kubernetes as a generic control plane for multi-tenant service platforms. - [Helping 1k new clouds thrive](/blog/helping-1k-clouds-thrive) (2025-12-10) - The most interesting thing about Datum isn't what we're building, but who we're building it for. - [Why we're open sourcing domain validation](/blog/open-sourcing-domain-validation) (2025-11-25) - Datum has acquired CloudValid to reduce onboarding friction for SaaS platforms and Alt Clouds. - [Meet Olli, the quiet framework driving design at Datum](/blog/meet-olli) (2025-11-24) - The shared foundation that improves consistency, removes friction, and lets us build new ideas quickly without constraining creativity. - [Internet superpowers for every builder](/blog/internet-superpowers-for-every-builder) (2025-11-19) - We've raised $13.6M to help upgrade the internet so that thousands of new clouds and billions of agents can interact securely. No network team required. - [From cage nuts to Kubernetes](/blog/from-cage-nuts-to-kubernetes) (2025-11-19) - Why now is the time to translate the complex, long-lived, learned experiences of network operators into a systematic platform driven by the modern Kubernetes ecosystem. - [Datum MCP: Cursor, meet cross connects](/blog/claude-meet-cross-connects) (2025-11-19) - For 20 years, we've dragged our apps to the network. Datum MCP works to flip the script by bringing the networks to your app. - [Our OSS strategy, explained](/blog/open-source-strategy) (2025-02-19) - Here's how we think about trust- how to gain it and how to keep it efficiently. And how that led us to adopt an AGPL-3.0 license for our core technology. - [It's the network, stupid](/blog/the-network-stupid) (2025-02-19) - As workloads and data become more distributed, modern-day builders need powerful, flexible tools that scale with them, wherever them need to go. Here's how Datum plans to help. --- Source: