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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?

Tom Tunguz

Technology innovations swing to a pendulum’s cadence. Sometimes innovations begin with infrastructure changes and reverberate up the stack. Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. When will we see rapid speciation?

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. It has certainly unlocked a measure of collaboration, productivity, feature velocity, and innovation within SaaS software development previously unseen. unplanned outage or service impairment) and/or need subsequent remediation (e.g.,

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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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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma: How successful companies are embracing innovation units

Intercom, Inc.

Few books have chronicled how innovation takes place – and how market leaders fail to seize it – as well as Clayton Christensen ’s seminal book The Innovator’s Dilemma. So why not take a page from the startup book and set up new avenues and opportunities so people can innovate in their job? And that’s what we’re exploring today.

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A New Architecture for Next-Generation Software Companies: Announcing Mattermost

Tom Tunguz

A new wave of companies that is responding to the changing needs of customers by innovating their architecture. Customers can choose where to host the database, how to secure it, monitor it, ensure it complies with new data privacy regulations, limit access, and service it. Today, the SaaS model dominates. It’s updated just as quickly.

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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. Bring such people into the DevOps fold, share learnings and build trust.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

I hosted Will on our podcast, where we talked about how he keeps his team innovating, hiring generalists vs. specialists, managing in a high growth environment and more. Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. Making the shift from maintenance to innovation. One of the blog posts was about this Yahoo!