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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. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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

CloudGeometry

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. I highly encourage you to read his blog post and watch his talk.

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IaaS PaaS SaaS: Mastering The 3 Different Cloud Service Models

How To Buy Saas

Don’t worry; in this blog, we will help you know everything about the different cloud computing models like IaaS PaaS SaaS to decide which one will be best for your business. This blog delves into the three types of Cloud Computing services: IaaS PaaS SaaS. You can get them all through cloud computing.

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How to build a culture of security in funded SaaS companies with software security best practices

Audacix

The application security landscape is constantly changing, and with the increased frequency of software application breaches in recent years, it's crucial that companies are able to protect their applications and software development life cycle from cyberattacks.

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5 Amazon SES Alternatives: Best Reviewed Options for 2023

How To Buy Saas

Amazon SES is more suited for sending bulk transactional emails, but in this blog, I will suggest some leading Amazon SES alternatives for sending both transactional and promotional emails. Amazon also offers you the option to access the API using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK).

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this.

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