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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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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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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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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Leverage in SaaS architecture, like financing leverage from the capital markets, only works when you have a plan to keep the learned improvements delivering value. Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. The cloud software industry has changed. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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Bulletproof your software with these 12 best application security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM & WAF)

Audacix

Interactive application security testing tools are typically used during a traditional functional software testing process and don't necessarily conduct security testing on your entire application. is a static application security software that analyzes your source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

You likely made time-to-market trade-offs to speed up your roadmap. Start assessing what you will need to do by reviewing the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar design principles and Google’s DevOps tech: Shifting left on security. #2 Still, it also means a lot more scrutiny on how your product works. How do you respond?