Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Tabular is a compelling data lakehouse solution, meaning it brings data warehouse functionality (SQL semantics + ease of use) to the data lake (cost-efficient and scalable). If you want your data platform to run like those at Netflix, Salesforce, Stripe, AirBNB and many others (i.e. Let's dive in.

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas. Compare that to AWS’ managed database, Aurora, which charges $0.0000002 per request. The cost to store data unblock chains has fallen five orders of magnitude in the last 3 years.

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IT World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Goldman Sachs, through a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched a financial data management and analytics service to help clients crunch data to extract business value. To read this article in full, please click here

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AWS Trends Banking Data 75

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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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

Mike and Rudina do a great job of explaining the complex AI terminology for everyday non-technical founders and leaders to understand and apply to their businesses. Because they’ve contributed $40M to their bottom line by bringing AI to their core product and business, and they’re one of the few companies who have. Why is data so hard?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A year ago, AWS, GCP, & Azure averaged 44% annual growth. Amazon: We expect [customer] optimization efforts will continue to be a headwind to AWS growth in at least the next couple of quarters. So So far in the first month of the year, AWS year-over-year revenue growth is in the mid-teens. Amazon: Net sales increased $21.4

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 282

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Cloud AWS Sales Hiring 282

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. How AWS Does It. So what is the next step toward putting these best practices in place at your organization?

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kazuki Ohta, CEO & Founder at Treasure Data, shares his company’s story of how pivoting at the right time saved their business and accelerated their growth to $100 million ARR. When it launched in 2011, Treasure Data’s positioning was a Hadoop-based big data warehouse in the cloud. million and $1.2

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Challenges and Pitfalls of a Partner Ecosystem Drata attributes much of its success to its partner ecosystem, which is an interesting case study for most, so how do they break up marketing, sales, and resource allocation vs. a more direct-sales modeled business? AWS can’t support 20 partners equally. Otherwise, it falls apart.

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AWS Scale Sales Hiring Marketing 215

Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B run rate business and has made up for an incredible 67% of Amazon’s operating revenue last quarter.

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Q4 earnings season for cloud businesses is now behind us. In this post, I’ll take a data-driven approach in evaluating the overall group’s performance, and highlight individual standouts along the way. One of my favorite data sets from the quarter was one my colleague Thomas pulled together. Is Software Rebounding?

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Cloud Software Azure AWS 177

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 situation continues to impact people, businesses, and communities everywhere, we know it is more important than ever to stay in touch with your customers, and Intercom is committed to helping you stay connected. We have robust plans in place to ensure we continue to deliver the highest levels of technical and business service.

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AWS Scale Business Cloud 192

Frontegg

JUNE 30, 2021

this SaaS architecture design is simple: have a single codebase that runs for all clients with the same data structure, but the data layer is separated into different workspaces by each organization. Finally, when the business has unlimited possibilities for expansion, all the costs involved become smaller in scale as you expand.

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AWS SaaS Payments Payment Methods Enterprise 88

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Your application grows more complex, your customers 10x, then 100x, which means the amount of data you’re storing and moving around grows by 1000x. But eventually you need to decide what stage your business is in. Do you think that there are 10x or 100x opportunities for your business ahead? Over time all of that changes.

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AWS DevOps as a Service Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 115

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 19, 2022

At Intercom, we believe trust is at the core of every relationship between a business and its customers. This is the fifth post in a content series exploring Intercom’s investment in supporting large businesses. Your data is our most critical asset. We leave no stone unturned when it comes to data privacy.

compliance 138

compliance Data Software Review Scale 138

SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Basics: The Building Blocks of the Finance Team To understand how finance teams impact an organization, it’s helpful to break down various functions and how they support the business. Accountants are responsible for ensuring the company has clean financial statements and data.

Scale 183

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 183

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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Engineering K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Data AWS 52

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 28, 2023

AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), and Google Cloud (Google) all reported this week. When the tailwinds of new business start to overcome the headwinds of optimization (or when headwind of optimization becomes a tailwind of net expansion). Everyone is hoping to find a glimmer of data to suggest that the headwinds are abating and easing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

We have truly global ambitions to bring our mission of making internet business personal to the biggest enterprise customers across the world. We also partner closely with AWS on new technologies and approaches designed to future proof our rapid growth. Our tooling allows for high availability.

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Scaling AWS Software Review Technical Review 252

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. That is not new.”

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Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 152

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. Corey works with his customers on reducing their AWS bills, and he’s seen large numbers of cloud architectures in practice, so I think he’s a pretty good source on this.

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Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

B2B is finding more consumers and prosumers paying, and B2C is finding Enterprise and business use cases. RevenueCat is selling to businesses selling to consumers, which has resulted in over $6B in subscription app revenue tracked across the Apple Store, Google Play Store, and Stripe. average realized LTV. 25% isn’t unusual.

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Subscription Payment Features B2B Mobile 269

User Pilot

AUGUST 16, 2023

How to promote data democratization in your SaaS business to improve decision-making ? TL;DR Data democratization is the process of simplifying how data is stored and managed to help non-technical employees access it easily and make data-driven decisions. What is data democratization?

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Data Technical Review Government Data Analysis 78

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

As a founder, you may know exactly what tech stack you need to build your product – but what about when it comes to the tools you need to run your business? With more and more tools out there catering to startups, how do you know which ones are really necessary for your business? Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

The fact of the matter is that data science, as a field, is still relatively new. The fact of the matter is that data science, as a field, is still relatively new. This week, we had the pleasure of chatting with Benn about the modern data stack and how data can – and more importantly, should – be used to drive growth.

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Data Airlines AWS Underperforming Technical Team 151

IT World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

5G is an awful name. It covers multiple kinds of cellular data networks. In short, its performance is more like Wi-Fi than any kind of cellular data network. Today, 5G can at last deliver much better performance—sometimes—with certain versions of 5G only offered in specific places. First things first.

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AWS Business Investment Data 114

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Which means better customer relationships, more data, and new sources of revenue.

Payments 233

Payments Payment Services GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payment Solutions 233

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2020

The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. And the customer manages the data. Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. Today, many of those data centers are in the cloud, hence cloud prem. The 12 SaaS products query the database for the data they want to.

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Cloud VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Enterprise Data 195

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

DataBricks, whose business revolves around Spark operating in customer environments, has announced plans to acquire Mosaic, a vertically integrated model training & management system that functions on similar workloads. Five years ago, many startups defaulted to AWS for the generous credits, broad catalog, & rapid pace of innovation.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2022

We refer to each wave by its architecture advance: internet, mobile, cloud, data lake, single-page apps, containers, serverless. In a few years, data startups, consumer apps, and software vendors will rise and grow - the same as today. Why isn’t time kind to these types of proclamations? Web3 will disappear just the same.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In general economic data has continued to come in strong (a data point suggesting inflation could stay sticky, and the economy can absorb rates staying higher for longer). Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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Cloud Azure AWS Software Review 161

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As innovation in Fintech SaaS increases, so does the pressure to safeguard sensitive data. Plus, we’ll pull in expert opinions from the likes of FINBOURNE, incuto, Lenvi, Mutual Vision, OnePay, techUK, Starling Bank and Tred for their perspective on Fintech SaaS data security, today. The information these firms handle isn’t just data.

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Payments Data Payment Services Payment Solutions 52

SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And hundreds of thousands of downmarket businesses that could get value out of ZoomInfo. We make sure that we can continue to maintain the new business sales motion while we’re doing that to see if we can get to a place where it’s additive. At the same time – there are only 1,000 Fortune1k companies, right?

New CTO 259

New CTO Scale Sales Hiring AWS 259

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Infrastructure revenue growth averaged 33% this quarter, which is astounding considering we’re talking about businesses that sum to more than $50b of revenue per quarter. A year ago, these business units grew at 44% annually. The kink downwards in the red line at Q-2 shows a sudden deceleration in AWS’ growth rate.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These are YEAR 1 features today unless you’re an extremely small business. The big companies are excited about SaaS and know that it’s transformative to their business. Today, companies spend over $10M/month on AWS — companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Stripe. Which is why it’s almost a misnomer to call them Enterprise features.

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Enterprise readiness Payment Solutions Enterprise Payments 234

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Aiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds. Meanwhile, we do what we do best; manage cloud data infrastructure. We enable customers to drive business results from open source that trigger true transformations. With Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications.

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Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Payments SaaS Payments 213

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. Overall, it wasn’t pretty… AWS grew 28% when expectations were 30-31%. The other piece is higher energy costs (to service their data centers). Follow along to stay up to date!

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