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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. Multi-cloud architectures.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. I think of developers as the strategy to get into the market for whatever you’re doing. Jason : Without engineering viewing sales as some sort of tax. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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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. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

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

CloudGeometry

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. Until your better-and-faster solution reaches those customers in production, that great idea that’s somewhere in the software development?

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Let’s look at how we know how well we are doing that.