SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. Selling to Developers Let’s look at software developers as your target customers, as users and buyers. Why should they care?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2019

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. General software engineering interview questions. Questions about your background.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2021

No engineering, no code! Accusoft is a software development company specializing in content processing, conversion, and automation solutions. Within minutes. UserGems helps companies generate more revenue by combining relationship data with trigger events to surface the most likely buyers for each company.

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer.

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TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers. Developers aren’t aware of the progress of the current dev cycle, or even what’s in it. And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Recovery is Extremely Hard Software development is challenging.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

In fact, many founders and CEOs struggle with simply talking to their engineers and communicating their needs. The mysterious nature of engineers is also their superpower as they build products that make the seemingly impossible possible. At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 14, 2021

And the engine really never stopped running, evolving into a dominant DevOps Platform for software development. It was exciting at YC 2015 Demo Day. It was exciting as it scaled to be a more “enterprise” Github at first.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As engineers, one of the fundamental things we have to learn is the extent to which we can break things – how do we get the right balance between shipping safely and shipping fast? Almost 3 years in as a product engineer here, I have changed my perspective. As with everything in engineering, things are not black and white.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances. I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe data and software engineering practices converge.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Click here for UruIT’s Free Machine Learning Consultation – join a discovery session with our Machine LEarning engineers to identify opportunities of improvement by applying ML in your SaaS. What are they all about? during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To get to what’s right for you, you need a tech partner with a deep understanding of your business needs, software development experience, data engineering skills and AI expertise. But there’s a big difference between an LLM implementation and the right implementation for you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot. Historically, the burden of customer feedback fell on the solutions engineers and CS architects. Be disciplined about prioritizing that feedback and communication.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. These things are usually artifacts of some engineer’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Hooi Ling Tan is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. It is full-service agile software development, UI/UX and data science consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. Hooi Ling Tan. Kandy Yeung.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2024

The impact of AI on GitHub’s business and the future of software development. The post GTM 98: Going From IC to CRO at GitHub and Building a High-Performing Revenue Growth Engine with Elizabeth Pemmerl appeared first on GTMnow. Strategies for pricing new products and cross-selling within an existing customer base.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It turned out that the virality was a tremendous lead gen engine, and we never had to spend a dime on marketing, but then it really took a salesperson to get the sale over the top. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated. We could never quite make that work.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2024

Going Higher Up the Stack It’s crucial that you’ve got several different software development kits and APIs that help you embed that AI into specific applications, products, and solutions. CrushBank is seeing support engineers onboarding faster, increasing the number of help desk tickets to close, and decreasing the time to resolution.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But obviously, you’ll probably need a lot more people and processes (and features and software development) to provide a true solution. Don’t Fear The ProServ Team, or the Solution Architect, or the Sales Engineer. Access control. In any event, at least … Don’t Fear the Solution.

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TurnKey Labs

JUNE 28, 2023

I’ll let you in on a secret: Of all of the widely known scarce commodities in the world—oil, gold, lithium, palatable Justin Beiber songs (sorry, bro)—high-quality software developers are the shiny stars at the top of the list.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2020

I am currently a Software Engineer at FastSpring. I work with my fellow developers on new features, fix any issues that come up on the platform, and I specifically work on the checkout experience for consumers around the world. That environment really motivated me to want to be a part of the engineering team.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. I thought that the cultural shift that happened was not so much a struggle for the developers. Jason : Without engineering viewing sales as some sort of tax. Jason : You saw one?

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73 Automated sales coaching, AI sales development Architects, Surveyors, & Cartographers 0.28 Software engineers were the first to benefit with Copilot.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

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SaaS Metrics

APRIL 26, 2022

Collaboration is vital to software development. However, engineering collaboration in software development in. However, engineering collaboration in software development in. The post Why is collaboration key essential for effective software development?

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 13, 2015

IMHO, adopting and mastering agile software development, agile marketing and pretty much agile everything should be a priority of every SaaS business. The roots of agile software development and agile marketing lie in agile manufacturing , lean manufacturing and total quality methodologies. A Little Agile History.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Full stack developers are a coveted breed. They are dynamic, versatile, and have the ability to overcome a wide range of engineering obstacles. We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 2, 2024

As data has become a critical component of analytics & production systems, data engineers require more sophisticated tools to manage their data transformations. A short SQL statement can delete a table , reformat date into the US format, or compute the average quota attainment by account executive by region over a company’s history.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

Table Of Contents The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. How does DAST work? Number of user roles in your application.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re in the modern era of software development. Traditional waterfall methodologies of the 80s and 90s are transitioning to more iterative agile development, and with that a DevOps culture has emerged. Companies are shipping software faster and more frequently, a shift that requires tools that can keep up.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST scanning tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. How does DAST work? Number of web services that require security testing.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 26, 2016

Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. Put three front-end engineers on the same project and the user will have three different ways of accomplishing every task : point-and-click, keyboard shortcut, menu item. Hence microservices.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Web development and search engine optimization (SEO) become increasingly intertwined as search engines become more intelligent. Today, I’m speaking to web developers. If you’re responsible for building and maintaining a website, you’re also partially responsible for making sure it can rank in the search engines.

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TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Hiring tech talent, particularly software developers, can be a challenging task. It’s not just about finding someone who can code; it’s about finding the right fit for your team, someone who can bring your vision to life, and contribute to your company’s growth.

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Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

SaaS startup founders, product managers, UI designers and software engineers all have strong ideas and even stronger attachments to the SaaS products they build. Agile software development has seen wide adoption throughout the software industry. The product proposes and the market judges. Go All Out Agile.

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