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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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10 sureshot practices to supercharge your DevOps effectiveness

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. At that time, the fastest-growing company by some definition was Uber, and so I went. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was. It was a miracle.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. There is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Table Of Contents What are DevOps best practices?

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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Deciding up front how much devops you want your dev team to do is a critical step. And… It’s not fun.

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

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. But for prospects who are too busy to hop on a call, it definitely doesn’t hurt to have self-service options for both sales and support.

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

User- and customer-specific application logic and data services are provisioned in a way that enables streamlined monitoring and updating In SaaS terms, this combination of user and customer is called tenant context. For a deep dive, have a look at the AWS Definitions – SaaS Lens ; for a deeper dive, see the Google DevOps Catalog here.