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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Lockdown and the pandemic, to paraphrase Mike Tyson , have punched us in the face with Everything-as-a-Service. In the face of this sudden acceleration of SaaS-ification, DevOps need to do more to accelerate the transition. Is collaborative software development enough? It’s customers who pay the price.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

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You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Deciding up front how much devops you want your dev team to do is a critical step. And… It’s not fun.

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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. Developers are a tough crowd, their time is extremely valuable, and they’re allergic to anything that even remotely feels, tastes, or smells like marketing.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there. But that’s just the beginning.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. For a deep dive, have a look at the AWS Definitions – SaaS Lens ; for a deeper dive, see the Google DevOps Catalog here. Or just drop us a line.