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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. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software.

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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

And what are the different pricing strategies? That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. Another point on pricing strategies is there’s the classic, it’s been around for tens of years, per user model pricing. And launching another product.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

And we need to find a way to acknowledge these folks, and so I talk to Rick Boone, Senior Software Engineer and Strategic Advisor to the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, who’s a great example of this. And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy.

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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. An Inside Look at Snyk’s Product Led Growth Strategy. The post I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software.

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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, and engineering work”. 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.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

As Frank Slootman (Snowflake CEO) said, “Enterprises are also realizing that they cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy to base it on.” Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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