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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. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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How Your Startup's Org Chart Changes Your Product

Tom Tunguz

But it does raise the question of whether or not a startup’s teams are properly structured. One could argue this is a reflection of two forces: the growing size of the engineering team and the rise of devops where developers are responsible not only for coding but also quality assurance and operations.

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

SaaStr

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Email * The latest SaaStr updates straight to your inbox.

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Best Website Monitoring Services

Neil Patel

Most of these services capture webpage availability, average web page load time, and web page functionality, among other performance indicators. We have picked out the seven best website monitoring services to get your site up and running and staying healthy. How To Choose The Best Website Monitoring Service For You.

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Atlassian and Coda on creating personalized customer experiences at scale

Intercom, Inc.

Atlassian: Wayne Stewart, Head of CSS Cloud Growth – DevOps & IT. Wayne Stewart, Atlassian’s Head of CSS Cloud Growth – DevOps & IT, led the support team at incident management platform Opsgenie before it was acquired by Atlassian in 2018. “As

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

In 2001 David joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a General Partner. How does Mark view the amount B2B startups are raising today? How should early-stage startups approach the topic of pricing? Where does Steve see most startups go wrong when it comes to messaging? Episode No. Episode No.

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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. Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. 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.