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

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services. The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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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. It’s increasingly impossible to imagine a SaaS business without a firm commitment to DevOps thinking.

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

Baremetrics

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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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams The State of DevOps Dora Report shows the progression of everyone in this SaaS arms race – leaders and laggards alike – towards a model that produces faster cloud-driven commercial and technical success. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp.

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

CloudGeometry

DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability. Given that engineering is a core competence in software development, it should come as no surprise that there are plenty of ways to measure. We’ve written about this before.

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

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. Do you need your prospective buyer to connect your tool into their AWS account and then load in a ton of data in order for them to see the product in action?

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Frontegg Announces $5M Seed Round for First of Its Kind SaaS-as-a-Service Platform Aimed at Accelerating Global SaaS Innovation

Frontegg

As a result, Frontegg’s “SaaS Essentials” as a Service platform empowers organizations of all sizes to accelerate the delivery and the on-going enhancements of enterprise-grade SaaS applications. Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. About Frontegg.