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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.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. The arrival of cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS etc. Google, Microsoft, Apple).

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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. Semantic understanding of code and ephemeral developer environments enables data engineers to reduce costs and work more fluidly together (SQLMesh).

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Slack moves video and voice calls to AWS

IT World

Slack will run its native voice and video calling capabilities on Amazon Web Services’ Chime platform, part of a “multi-year partnership” for collaboration product development. Chime was launched by AWS in 2017 , but hasn’t grabbed attention in the same way as communication tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams in subsequent years.

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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! The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience, but there’s more to it than feature agility.

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[WEBINAR REPLAY] How to build a culture of security in your software development teams

Audacix

Building a culture of security in you software development teams is not an easy task, but its crucial if you want to minimise the chances of unforeseen cybersecurity disasters and unfortunate media appearances. How to build application security into your software development lifecycle.