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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

In 1963 Peter Drucker published his article, Managing for Business Effectiveness , where he said: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”. Mid-stage startups. ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company.

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

And we need to find a way to acknowledge these folks, and so I talk to Rick Boone, Senior Software Engineer and Strategic Advisor to the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, who’s a great example of this. Hunter Walk has a great article about this that I kind of took this idea from.

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

Clouded Judgement

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). This article talks about how Insider cut their S3 costs by 90% with Iceberg. In this post, I’ll focus more on the data lake portion of the diagram above.

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Bulletproof your software with these 12 best application security tools (SAST, DAST, CSPM & WAF)

Audacix

Table Of Contents As a software engineering leader, you know application security is no longer an activity that you can palm off to someone else. With the increasing number of sensitive data security breaches, it's essential to have the right automated application security tools in place to protect your software.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Enjoy this post?

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

Sales Hacker

Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it. Vishal Sunak: Being a technologist, I always believed that we could create algorithms that could read a contract and extract data.

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