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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Can you imagine a site reliability engineer managing 15 to 20 tokens, coordinating with finance teams to ensure proper treasury management, while ensuring high uptime? Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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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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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints. Data Products : The combination of large language models and data teams becoming software teams has led to data products. The same thing is happening in data.

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

Audacix

Table Of Contents As a software engineering leader, you know application security is no longer an activity that you can palm off to someone else. With the increasing number of sensitive data security breaches, it's essential to have the right automated application security tools in place to protect your software.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Mid-stage startups. ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers. They are called product engineers. Best in class public companies (e.g.

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

Audacix

How to build application security into your software development lifecycle. How to protect your cloud console with GCP/Azure/ AWS cloud console pentests. Instead, you will see how other top SaaS companies achieve their software security goals within budget and despite their software engineering teams constantly growing and changing.

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

OpenView Labs

It’s wild how many software-engineer-focused products just land them on a blank screen after signup and expect them to click around and figure out how to connect it to their Kubernetes instance, or whatever. If your product’s value isn’t apparent very quickly, you’re in trouble.