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How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards

Hitenism

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Working backwards isn’t a silver bullet that guarantees you success on the scale of AWS.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers.

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What’s New at ZoomInfo with CEO Henry Schuck

SaaStr

For example, Google and AWS are already ZoomInfo customers, but only certain sub-segments within those businesses – not the entire org. From Henry’s perspective, their software vertical and tech customers have hit a wall. The worst emotion for software sales is uncertainty.

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Infrastructure at speed: 5 lessons learned from building Intercom in Europe

Intercom, Inc.

Until now, Intercom has been a multitenant application hosted in a single region in AWS. We started out with a lot of “ known knowns”; problems we knew we had to solve, such as multiregion software deployments. And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. There are rules in starting an enterprise software company. I’ve built commercial software products before. A SaaStr Classic!! million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2014.).

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VMware fortifies its hybrid-cloud portfolio with management, automation, AWS and Dell offerings

IT World

SAN FRANCISCO—VMware has uncorked a variety of software products and services aimed at letting customers more quickly and securely build and manage hybrid-cloud environments. VMware used its VMworld customer event here to expand its cloud role to Dell/EMC and broadened its role with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward. It’s probably the single biggest technical-debt leverage exercise in modern software history. Software-defined anything! )