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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. Core part of Intercom. Search is an indispensable part of Intercom.

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Clouded Judgement 2.7.25 - "Group + Triage" AI Systems

Clouded Judgement

They each have some of the largest cloud businesses in the world in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud respectively. Group related incidents or tickets by severity to help prioritize. Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘24 We now have the quarterly reports from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Overall, there was weakness across the board.

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5 Security Changes Your Company Needs to Make to Land Enterprise Deals from Secureframe

SaaStr

A penetration test (often called a pen test) is a simulated attack by a third-party to expose vulnerabilities in a company’s infrastructures, systems, and applications. 2 – Setup Single Sign-on and a Password Management System. 4 – Setup a Version Control system with security best practices in mind.

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How our infrastructure scales alongside our customers

Intercom, Inc.

Today, our systems dynamically scale to serve about 50,000 web requests per second at peak, 26,000 background jobs per second, and 11,000 public API requests per second – demonstrating our ability to continuously scale to meet the requirements of modern enterprises. You need to store multiple millions of user records. Can Intercom do that?

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4 Recent, Very Bad, Truly Terrible Customer Success Experiences. Just This Week.

SaaStr

I don’t know if they were too lazy to look up if I was a customer, didn’t care, or didn’t even have an internal system to know (despite being worth billions). The way this public company did it was — awful. #3. Likely, some of the above 4 sad tales are due to incentives where CS reports to sales.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Be extremely mindful and diligent in understanding the security of companies you are outsourcing to. Our engineers also write a lot of Ruby code, which knits together a lot of AWS, infrastructure, platform and SaaS technologies that form the core of Intercom’s backend infrastructure. Best in class public companies (e.g.

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Mastering Partner Marketing: What NOT to Do and How to Excel with Drata CMO Sydney Sloan

SaaStr

AWS can’t support 20 partners equally. When partnering with big folks like Drata does with AWS, you have to bring business to them. Drata was one of three companies mentioned on stage by AWS’ Head of Partnerships because they did the most transactions on the marketplace than any other company. That’s a high value for AWS.

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