Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Until now, Intercom has been a multitenant application hosted in a single region in AWS. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start. We’re continuing to expand Intercom globally, and the lessons we learned while building out the infrastructure will be invaluable.

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IT World

AUGUST 27, 2019

More apps will be built and deployed in the next five years than in the last 40 to support workloads including analytics and connecting IoT devices, said Kip Colbert, vice president and cloud CTO for VMware, and that will require more expansive hybrid-cloud platform. RELATED: How Notre Dame is going all in with Amazon’s cloud.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). It’s probably the single biggest technical-debt leverage exercise in modern software history.

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IT World

OCTOBER 7, 2022

So I reached out to MacStadium ’s Senior Vice President and CTO, Chris Chapman, to learn more about the company's thinking and stratehgy. Like AWS, MacStadium has offered M1 Mac minis-as-a-service for a while; what’s new is the introduction of virtual desktops, which you can work on remotely. MacStadium introduces Orka Workspace.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet. To some extent, it’s not clear. Maybe endless price increases,” Jason says. A lot of it is moving to versions of AI. Dell fell 15% last week.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, automatically scale resources based on demand, providing agility and cost optimization. Tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation enable infrastructure to be defined in code, promoting consistency, repeatability, and scalability across environments.

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Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. Reshef Mann , CTO and Co-founder of AppsFlyer: “As a CTO, I strive to focus my R&D resources on developing our own core product while not compromising on the features that make our SaaS offering shine.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We are native to the cloud, we are on AWS, we are on Microsoft, Azure, and next year we’ll be on Google Cloud as well. I would then go onto LinkedIn, build a list from there, and find the the CTO, the CIO, of an organization and send them an email: “Hey, I run sales at a cloud data warehousing company.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I just came out of Stripe, I just came out of Datadog, I came out of Fastly, I’m an engineer, I love the guy that was the CTO of Fastly who [inaudible 00:08:34] making it up. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets. I want him or her. Yet, what if it’s their biggest check?

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 7, 2019

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. We made some smart bets on technology. Casey: It’s not that easy? Absolutely beautiful.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. The result: better security and no need for manual IP whitelisting.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it. Like my CTO, Eric, he’s like, “Dude, I got it all. You’ve now been afforded the ability to hire more experts and hire people who are like, Hey, you know what we solved, dude I got it? Don’t worry about it.” ” Right?

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Crafty CTO

JULY 7, 2023

This was in the context of a link to someone training / fine-tuning an LLM for the full corpus of AWS documentation. Many pointed out that ChatGPT probably does it better; lots of whining about “but ChatGPT gives me wrong answers, boo hoo hoo,” and then this gem. Implement it with the considerations Did we forget anything?

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Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO As your DevOps practice grows you will find manual alerting and monitoring tasks are often the bottlenecks that create the most frustrations and inefficiencies. There is no wrong answer to this riddle.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

The next five years are sort of terrifying for security, because I’ll tell you, one of my CTO, one of the early things he said to me back in the day that Adobe Sign/Echo Sign. Is AWS in the lead? Someone forgot to turn the security on, the elastic database. He said, “You know why we haven’t been hacked?”

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs. Data lives in the powerful, scalable Postgres open source database.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Fyle runs on AWS. Only the CTO has admin access. Fyle uses JWT to access all expense data. This is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims (encoded as a JSON object) to be transferred between 2 parties. All employees have extremely restricted access to the IAM role.

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Teamgate

AUGUST 12, 2019

A CMO will not respond to the same messaging as a CTO, so blindly shooting emails left and right in the hopes of winning some of the leads will waste your list and earn you a spammer’s badge. When crafting your email copy, keep the Apple example in mind, avoid the awful “me me me” attitude and focus on the prospect.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. From there, you will also want to enable me and Tony, once we are so convinced, to easily have a conversation with the our CTO or our Chief Financial Officer when there's opportunity to buy new developer software.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

AWS re:Invent : AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual conference, focused on cloud computing and SaaS-related services. The event brings together developers, architects, and IT professionals to explore the latest AWS developments. According to ChatGPT. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Harry Stebbings: What are you expecting from AWS this year?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO. .” I don’t think people have the patience today to have that first wow moment come a little bit later, than they might’ve had the patience for a year ago. Harry Stebbings: Terrible metaphor. Harry Stebbings: No, I’m kidding. What is your amuse-bouche ?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. So, I’m Chief Technology Officer, and years ago I was volunteered by my co-founder to work on culture. So I love it. Thanks for being here.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. So this is Dharmesh. Dharmesh is the. You're the co-founder of HubSpot. Sam: Are you active?

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful. So this is Dharmesh. Dharmesh is the. You're the co-founder of HubSpot. Sam: Are you active?

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