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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. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. To understand why Run Less Software is so important, let’s map out the battlefield, the armies on it, their missions and their strategies. Innovative startups.

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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. Software startups are rising to meet the need.

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work. This is why our customers – from small startups to massive, complex enterprises – put their trust in us. Here’s how we do it.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. Want to know what to expect at SaaStr Europa?

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Growth Engineer Job Description Cheatsheet

Sylvia Ng

Comfort and delight in a small, intense, high-growth startup environment. At least a Bachelor degree in software engineering. Experience as startup founder. Building web applications in a corporate or startup environment. Exceptional proficiency in software engineering. Integration skills.