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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

SaaStr

With Databricks now one of the largest pre-IPO technology companies, with $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and a valuation of $62 billion, Ron’s insights are gold for any revenue leader looking to scale. And we expect our salespeople to understand the technology. They’re not just doing demos.

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. Our first challenge – Elasticsearch.

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Search at Intercom: Building our Elasticsearch cloud on AWS

Intercom, Inc.

For this reason, we chose to run exclusively on AWS and wherever possible, we make use of battle-tested AWS services, be it RDS Aurora for our relational databases, the Simple Queue Service (SQS) for our async workers or ElastiCache for our caching layer. This post is a version of a talk I gave at Elastic Community Conference recently.

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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

We are building for the long term – that means ensuring reliability by default, and the ability to accommodate massive scale as we grow. . As these existing customers have grown, and we’ve welcomed bigger and bigger customers, we’ve always focused on saying yes to scale. . We’re growing alongside our customers. Can Intercom do that?

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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. I think Lambda is an amazing piece of technology, but it has its place.

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Session Registration Open for SaaStr Build 2022: Sign Up to Hear HubSpot’s GM, Amplitude’s CEO, AWS’ Head of Customer Success and CircleCI’s CEO

SaaStr

With so many incredible sessions to choose from, we thought we’d highlight a few for you here: Building & Scaling Global Product Teams. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends: Lessons Learned with AWS’ Head of Customer Success Harini Gokul. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends.

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Cloud Data Lakes - The Future of Large Scale Data Analysis

Tom Tunguz

The cloud data lake architecture enables companies to achieve scale, flexibility, and accessibility. The conference features talks from practitioners and open-source leaders from the ecosystem from Netflix, Microsoft, Expedia, AWS, and Preset. A vital part of a cloud data lake is the open format of data.