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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Cultural alignment within an engineering organization is necessary, but not sufficient. unplanned outage or service impairment) and/or need subsequent remediation (e.g., Read more about this in my prior post. More about how we got here in my previous post.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Lockdown and the pandemic, to paraphrase Mike Tyson , have punched us in the face with Everything-as-a-Service. In the face of this sudden acceleration of SaaS-ification, DevOps need to do more to accelerate the transition. It’s increasingly impossible to imagine a SaaS business without a firm commitment to DevOps thinking.

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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?

Tom Tunguz

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. Infrastructure-as-a-service provided by Amazon, Google and Microsoft among others empowers applications to scale as users demand. Technology innovations swing to a pendulum’s cadence.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity. Hold teams accountable using service level objectives (SLOs).

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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. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. Multi-cloud architectures.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

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