Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

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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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. the ability to offload more IT tasks to a remote vendor.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example, Cyber Chief is an application security testing tool that now helps you secure web apps, APIs and cloud security posture management as well. Here is what you need to know about security testing for a web app and why you need to shift from the conventional DevOps framework to the DevSecOps framework.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle. Similarly, testers and developers need to know about these features of application security tools.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. SMSM has one significant drawback: targeted at dev and devops folks, it is configured and run through the AWS command line interface.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While functional software testing is already regarded as a critical component of the software development lifecycle, unfortunately, automated software security testing remains an afterthought for the majority of software teams. Penetration testing as a service can be done using automated security testing tools like Cyber Chief.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In short, web app security needs you to build a culture of software security best practices in your development team. Otherwise, you could be missing an opportunity to catch on with the rest of the leading software development companies. Be it on your LinkedIn or in your next interview.

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Frontegg

MAY 24, 2021

The software development world has changed dramatically over the last few years. More and more applications are being developed as micro frontends as well.This post will follow the evolution of SaaS architecture: from monolithic applications through the microservices era, to today’s micro frontends. The Monolithic era. Scaling ?—?Scaling

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Table Of Contents With the severity and complexity of cyber threats evolving, you need to test your web applications continuously throughout the development process. Web application assessment involves a thorough examination of a web application's security to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that attackers could potentially exploit.

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Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

So you're on the hunt for test automation services for your web or mobile app, right? There are thousands of test automation service providers willing to grab every last dollar off you. Is it the quality of applications that allow your customers to spend more money on your goods or services?

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I'm going to reveal to you a specific automated penetration testing tool that not only helps you discover vulnerabilities, but it's one that is actually built to be used by your software development team without the need for help from external security teams. How Do You Automate Penetration Testing? It is simple!

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Audacix

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Services running on open ports determined whether vulnerabilities exist or not with the help of the tool. Because you’re building and, likely, maintaining a web application that has many releases throughout the year, you need a web application vulnerability testing tool that can work with your software development processes.

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

The unfortunate fact is that most penetration testing service providers do a really horrible job of helping you, the customer, understanding three critical decision-making questions: What type of penentration test do you need? How will their penetration testing services actually help you (beyond a 50-page penetration test report)?

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a series of articles, we will share our experiences about: Our journey to AWS EKS (Kubernetes managed service). Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). Lack of modern cloud features and managed services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bansal shares this and other key milestones and frameworks for company building in conversation with a16z general partner Peter Levine; enterprise deal team partner Satish Talluri (who was a director of product and growth operations there); and Sonal Chokshi. What does this mean for product design and product management?

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It’s the same idea as DevOps, but for IT pros,” I said. “Or First, there’s a really obvious need for a set of processes and skills to manage a SaaS environment, especially since every organization uses so many of them. In fact, there were a lot of people who thought it was a really bad idea. You can read the original post here.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Think: financial services, healthcare, and other highly-regulated industries. For some organizations, that’s a critical need. You’ll compete with yourself.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 24, 2023

Kanban and Scrum are both project management techniques that emphasize continuous improvement and completion of projects in small increments. While the former is basically hinged on visualizing tasks to ensure a seamless workflow, the latter is more about assigning roles and managing deadlines for all delivery cycles. What is Kanban?

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

You will better understand success by being able to identify failure: Figure 1 – The lone IT professional, after being told that the budget is too small for more security people on their team. If security is on your mind only, you will fail no matter how great you are or your team is. Doing security by yourself is failure.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Prior to Harness, Stephen was VP of Marketing at Glassdoor, managing a team of 52 in product marketing, helping grow B2B revenue from $19m to $90m in just 2 years, leading to their $1.2Bn acquisition. What works?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps? How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF? Do you need field salespeople?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * In terms of tone, what is the right tone to approach the broader team with? How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

DataOps are the architectures and software developed to do all of this at scale, in an agile, responsive manner. Just as in DevOps , DataOps should occur in various environments or spaces. You’ll want environments for developing DataOps, for testing and analyzing, and for going live. All those things need to happen quickly.

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