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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Infrastructure as a service is now standard, as are Platform and Software as a service. AI is potentially the next elephant waiting to enter the room. These third parties are relevant because our engineering capacity has never been more limited. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

By combining these techniques, application vulnerability scanning tools can effectively uncover security gaps in an application, helping software engineering managers proactively address them before they are exploited by malicious actors. What steps should I take to see if automated vulnerability scanning is right for my software team?

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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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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. But this isn’t another post about AI, it’s about the future of data infrastructure. As Frank Slootman (Snowflake CEO) said, “Enterprises are also realizing that they cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy to base it on.”

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Responding to COVID now and for the future [25:05].

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