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Building Intercom from home: Software delivery in challenging times

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom’s entire software delivery system is built on the ability to move fast, react to change and rollback, or roll forward, rapidly in the case of something unexpected happening. Our software delivery systems and operations are robust and well understood internally. The value of the familiar.

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Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose (Pod 554 + Video)

SaaStr

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. 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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SaaStr Podcast 453 (and Video): Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive With Jyoti Bansal

SaaStr

Bansal felt passionate about enhanced software delivery, the need that Harness meets for developers. But then, you know you can’t just build great products; you have to combine them with building great teams. That builds great business.”. Finally, you should also really have a passion for the problem your product solves.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

Customer-centric software delivery SaaS sets solving customer problems as its north star. Until your better-and-faster solution reaches those customers in production, that great idea that’s somewhere in the software development? By implication, one-off features and changes reduce software delivery efficiency.)

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

Software delivery is measured by results, not just feature velocity. Five or years ago, the writing was on the wall, and the DevOps Research Assessment project set out to quantify what separates leaders – the companies whose software is eating the world – from the laggards (who are now really struggling in the face of the pandemic).

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How SaaS can be a Game Changer for Small and Medium Businesses

SaaS Metrics

Introduction SaaS (Software as a Service) is a model of software delivery that has evolved significantly over the past decade. Enterprises were quick to adopt the new technology to minimize the high aggregate cost associated with buying traditional software licenses.

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PlanetScale CEO on Cloud-Prem and Climbing the Engineering Ladder

Andreessen Horowitz

In this interview, Lambert discusses a number of topics related to cloud native software-delivery models, including what good serverless looks like, who should run Kubernetes, and the emergence. Prior to joining PlanetScale (then as chief product officer), he was VP of engineering at GitHub.