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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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Investing in Upstash

Andreessen Horowitz

By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. The benefit is that each service can scale up and down independently, but it requires an elastic caching or queuing mechanism to buffer the interactions between services.

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

SaaStr

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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

Tom Tunguz

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, I’m thrilled to announce our investment in and partnership with Mattermost. They deliver open source messaging to secure enterprises and DevOps teams.

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Pentest as a service for fast-growing SaaS companies

Audacix

Until, of course, you stumble upon and adopt the pentest-as-a-service approach to security. This is precisely the outcome that the pentesting-as-a-service model of application security provides to fast-growing SaaS companies. Table Of Contents What is penetration testing as a service (PTaaS)?

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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. But you're in luck, because successful DevOps practitioners leave clues and patterns that you can start implementing today to supercharge the value from your DevOps program.

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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. If you want to scale, you need to make the investment of time and money and make sure your infrastructure suits your size of business. And… It’s not fun. Lessons Learned.

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