It's not papers but I would give special mention to Why Software Is Eating the World by Marc Andreessen and Amazon's original 1997 letter to shareholders.
"Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. This includes even industries that are software-based today."
I use Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach for my classes on computer networks and distributed systems and on a theoretical level its a good read. My students appreciate the visual presentations. Modern networking setups depend a lot on the area of scope. Do you want to understand IP networks, tier-1 internet backbone, mobile networks, private networks, data center architecture, distributed web applications, etc.
Does anyone have a good recommendation on reading about continuously updating PWAs. It is quite obvious for the App Store that you can push new versions and your users are notified that they need to update. If someone has a good reading on this I would appreciate it as I have started to develop PWAs. Sometimes my PWA stops working and I have to save it to Home Screen again and I am not sure how to troubleshoot this. Thank you.
No, in the part "April 2020 - Shopify hijacks Upsell X" they are requesting him to "not distribute mass solutions via private apps to Shopify merchants in order to bypass checkout". Shopify had their own checkout from the beginning and the whole purpose of his application was to bypass the existing solution. I assume there were Bulgarian payment providers connected to Shopify in 2017, but according to himself these payment providers wouldn't accept their business idea to run a pharmacy as an e-commerce. Therefore, he made a workaround.
You had a great run, but I think it is unfair to say that Shopify “saw what you were doing” and “hijacked” your business. Obviously a small team can move faster and Shopify could easily have internal development plans for the same solution for a long time. Kudos for the €600k MRR and your execution.
"Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. This includes even industries that are software-based today."
https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/
"But this is Day 1 for the Internet and, if we execute well, for Amazon.com."
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazons-origin...