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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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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. They’re based on my experiences working in technology, the practical application of methods in varied use cases, and speaking with peers about their strategies and successes.

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Hyperscaling Post-IPO with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada (Podcast #485)

SaaStr

It’s super important to make sure that once you get through that public crossover, you’re still setting those milestones and audacious goals that get people excited and inspired to do their best work and create incredible products and services. It helps everyone stay focused on the long game. Manage employee sentiment throughout your growth.

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The ZeroOps journey: Mind The Gap

CloudGeometry

Ergo: DevOps, the magic that works through transparent cross-functional collaboration…except when it doesn’t. Is “the” new answer to DevOps now ZeroOps or NoOps? Neither is the secret ingredient that developers need to include to achieve robust, change-proof DevOps. This is what the founders of DevOps envisioned.

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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. The best SaaS firms consider cybersecurity an integral part of their business strategy. This is precisely the outcome that the pentesting-as-a-service model of application security provides to fast-growing SaaS companies.

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New at Intercom: 5 highlights from our virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

During the keynote, our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor laid out our core beliefs guiding the products we’re building and the kind of world we’re building for. We announced our Premier Services program. That’s why we’re excited to offer something new: our Premier Services program.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

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. One of the things I found as I’m desperately Googling “What is DevOps?”, product called Yahoo!