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The Convergence of Data & Software Engineering in the Age of AI

Tom Tunguz

Data contracts express the commitments data teams make to others in the company about data freshness, format, & consistency - again drawing parallels to the service-level agreements in core engineering. Security systems govern access to databases akin to secrets management & identity access management solutions do in the cloud.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift. The current state of AI adoption resembles the early days of cloud: great infrastructure exists, but there’s a lack of applications to use it effectively.

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The Top Cloud Daily News Stories of The Week

SaaStr

Quora Spaces has added a new feature where you can see what content is most popular on our Cloud Daily feed there, which will hit 100,000 subscribers this week. Want to know the top stories 100,000 other Cloud and SaaS enthusiasts are reading? 3: “The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Built a Fortune on Free Software”. #4:

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The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini

SaaStr

A Merger of Two Personas — Software Engineer and ML Engineers Ten years ago, your data stack involved systems that produced data. Then, you put it in Cloud data lakes before it reached machine learning. Now, those ML engineers are becoming part of the core workflow.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out. And we’re excited to share that the SaaStr APAC Braindates platform is now open.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Multi-cloud architectures. Look, there are situations where a multi-cloud strategy will be of benefit to you.

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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.