Clouded Judgement

JUNE 30, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. And as we move from general purpose LLM engines (think ChatGPT) to enterprise specific engines (models trained on enterprise specific data), companies need to get their data in order. And the key variable is organized data in the cloud.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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Nimble - Sales

JANUARY 5, 2021

The post CRM For IT Industry: Software Developers, Cloud Engineers, and More appeared first on Nimble Blog. The industry is as exciting to be part of as it is ridden with all sorts of challenges, big and small, including lack of skilled talent, cybersecurity issues, lack of agility, outsourcing […].

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Data Engineering Survey The folks at Airbyte are running a survey of data engineers. When just looking at the numbers, the median cloud software NTM revenue multiple is 5.0x. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Or hire less engineers but write more code with tools like GitHub Copilot. Or hire less data engineers but write more SQL queries. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date! The list goes on.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Alert fatigue is a common problem among engineering teams that handle operations and maintain infrastructure. The result is lots of semi-meaningful alerts, noise, context-switching, and multitasking for the on-call engineer. Are the steps clear enough to be followed by any engineer on the team? Is the alert still relevant?

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2021

But the clouds are rolling in for open source companies (pun intended). Today, open source software faces an identity crisis: what does it mean to be an open source company in the cloud? On the other hand, the future is in cloud. But what does it mean to be open source in the cloud? It’s enterprise-first selling.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

Cloud Data Lakes are a trend we’ve been excited about for a long time at Redpoint. A cloud data lake is a repository of data in the cloud, with the tools and infrastructure to analyze it securely. The cloud data lake architecture enables companies to achieve scale, flexibility, and accessibility.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

Our product engineers are empowered to build great features, fast. You can watch a video of that talk below, or read on to learn how we built our Elasticsearch cloud on AWS. In Intercom, we believe that shipping is our company’s heartbeat. A large part of making this belief a reality is the idea of running less software.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is a curious book. Richard Hamming, the author, was a professor of science and engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School and researcher at Bell Labs. He knew quite a bit about science and engineering. Others approach the field with a beginner’s mind.

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CloudKettle

APRIL 18, 2024

The Salesforce ecosystem powers the Sales and Service engines at some of the world’s largest companies. However, there is now a native option available, thanks to […] The post Service Cloud Voice Primer appeared first on CloudKettle.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Cloud Data Lakes are the future of large scale data analysis , and the more than 5000 registrants to the first conference substantiate this massive wave. Also, Tableau’s Chief Product Officer François Ajenstat will discuss the Tableau’s role in the cloud data lake. Data engines query the data rapidly, inexpensively.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2021

“State of the Cloud with Bessemer Venture Partners” The most recent update on where the Cloud is — and is going. #2. “Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada” A terrific session with PagerDuty’s and Sendgrid’s CEOs on how to keep a growth engine … growing. #3.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 21, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. They’re often rapidly hiring engineers (to build more features) and sales reps (to sell the product) in attempts to capture the majority of a market against their competition (both other startups and incumbents). ” Quite the claim!

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Treehouse Technology Group

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Overview: As a Data Engineer, you will work with stakeholders and the internal development team to guide the technical development of enterprise data solutions. The Data Engineer will… The post Data Engineer (Python & AWS Cloud) appeared first on Treehouse Tech Group.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

One of the joys of an engineering career is how varied it can be – the size, industry and above all culture of any company entirely determines what an engineering job actually looks like on a day to day basis. I’ve been a Product Engineer at Intercom for just over two years. Joining Intercom. Implement lean processes.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 25, 2020

There needs to be a layer between them to make all that data accessible to these users - a data lake engine. If you keep data in cloud data lake stores, and need a system to make that data accessible to analysis tools at interactive speed - without moving it - you’re looking for Dremio. That’s Dremio.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

WP Engine is one of the best managed WordPress hosting services out there for website owners wanting to take a hands-off approach to website management. WP Engine Compared to The Best Web Hosting for WordPress. If you believe in the adage that time is money, as we do, it is easy to justify WP Engine’s relatively costly plans.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2020

“From Burn-Out to $100M in ARR with Jason Cohen of WP Engine” This SaaStr classic shares how Jason, a repeat founder, got to $100m ARR. 9: “Jyoti Bansal and The AppDynamics Story: From Idea to $3.7B” Jyoti is one of my very favorite Cloud founders. They are excellent. A deep dive on how to do it here. #9:

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

In today’s world, cloud computing has become very popular among businesses of all sizes because of its effective tech services. Cloud computing services have helped businesses conveniently access and utilize tools to perform different tasks. You can get them all through cloud computing. Ensure cloud security and compliance.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2024

So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders. Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Much, Much, Much More Efficient Than 12-24 Months Ago The story of almost every Cloud leader. Wow, what an engine at $2.5 Billion in ARR!

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And now we’re here in 2022 – rounds are down, prices are down, the entire cloud is down. Sell more stuff to new buyers within your customer base: You can think about who the adjacent buyers are within your company, so if you’re selling to marketing, could you also sell to sales, if you’re selling to engineering could you also sell to product.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2024

Historically, a database like Snowflake sold both data storage & a query engine (& the computing power to execute the query). It also ushers in an epoch where the query engines will compete for different workloads with price & performance. The database is being unbundled. That’s step 1 above.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2021, ChartMogul experienced a transformative shift in data strategy when we introduced a dedicated data engineering team. Updating the data engineering stack streamlined data processing; reducing the time and effort invested in manual data handling.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Focus on scaling what works best, but don’t over-engineer and waste valuable time. After helping customers succeed with your first product, figure out what other problems you can solve for them – and as you progress, you’ll uncover new use cases and add more products and features to the cloud. Test, measure, and iterate.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2019

This is pretty darn impressive, and probably more importantly, shows the continued jaw-dropping growth of Cloud. Buy Microsoft Stock Because of Its Big Cloud Deals, Says JPMorgan. Developers’ lives matter’ – Chinese software engineers use Github to protest against the country’s 996 work schedule. Wow, trending #1 on Github.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2022

From Asana to Zoominfo: this year’s Europa lineup is bringing the best Cloud speakers from around the globe together for two days of incredible learning and insights. There will be over 2,500+ SaaS and Cloud professionals joining us there in person. Get your ticket now and get a front-row seat when the Cloud comes to Barcelona.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They’re at almost $500m in ARR, with 1,850 customers, now growing a modest but steady 19% and they have gotten pretty efficient, like most other public SaaS and Cloud leaders. 1M+ Customers Are Key to the Growth Engine With 73 $1m+ customers. Engineering also took a small hiy as well. A year ago, growth was at 48%.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In the past year, we’ve added 300,000+ followers to our Cloud Daily from SaaStr! We get to know what stories are the most popular in Cloud, at least. 105,000 views and 399 upvotes on where the Cloud is going for Google in India. Here’s How Big Tech Companies Like Google and Facebook Set Salaries for Engineers.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Last year, I covered 9 topics: Cloud data warehouses will process 75% of workloads by 2024. Data workloads segment into in-memory, cloud data warehouse, & cloud data lakes. LLMs change the roles of data engineers. SaaS applications use the cloud data warehouse as a reading & writing database.

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Navint

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Salesforce Revenue Cloud unites multiple existing products in the Salesforce ecosystem, most notably Salesforce CPQ & Billing, to support and enable a more robust sales engine, including those that rely on subscriptions, recurring revenue or consumption-based models.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

Eric Yuan had already led WebEx engineering at Cisco when he started Zoom at 41. And I suspect with so many SaaS and Cloud veterans now, we’ll see the average stay about the same, but more and more SaaS leaders started by folks at 40+. Jay Chaudhry started Zscaler at 48.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2019

Scott Beechuk, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, brings together world-class SaaS engineering leaders Claire Hough, Vijay Gill and Weiping Peng for a dynamic conversation on where SaaS technology is headed, how to build top performing engineering teams and what it takes to lead in today’s high-velocity engineering environment.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). Today, many of those data centers are in the cloud, hence cloud prem.

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2019

Quora Spaces has added a new feature where you can see what content is most popular on our Cloud Daily feed there, which will hit 100,000 subscribers this week. Want to know the top stories 100,000 other Cloud and SaaS enthusiasts are reading? The post The Top Cloud Daily News Stories of The Week appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

Yesterday, Dremio hosted the Subsurface Conference , the first conference on cloud data lakes. If one had doubts that cloud data lakes are a strategic area for many in the data ecosystem, those figures should quash them. There is a mega-trend underpinning the changes in data design philosophy and tooling: the rise of the data engineer.

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