OpenView Labs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Anyone who has ever tried to sell software to developers probably learned pretty quickly that traditional B2B marketing tactics just plain don’t work. Developers are a tough crowd, their time is extremely valuable, and they’re allergic to anything that even remotely feels, tastes, or smells like marketing.

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. What once took millions of dollars and a team of engineers to create, a lone developer could suddenly hack together in half an hour. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Why move and why now?

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Frontegg

JUNE 30, 2021

Your development team would have to manage the infrastructure of the servers, updates, and incorporation of new functionalities separately for each instance. If your application had even a dozen users, and you want to deploy a new version to update all applications, your development team would have to do the same deployment a dozen times!

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

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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Audacix

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Building a culture of security in you software development teams is not an easy task, but its crucial if you want to minimise the chances of unforeseen cybersecurity disasters and unfortunate media appearances. Then, based on your responses, we will show you how to: Do regular software security activities to reduce your overall burden.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Have a plan Decide how much DevOps you want in your development Talk to who you’re going to switch to first Make sure you have the right team in place Brace for transition period costs Plan for higher Cost of Revenue. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. Have a plan. down the road. Well… maybe! But not for us.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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IT World

JUNE 5, 2020

Slack will run its native voice and video calling capabilities on Amazon Web Services’ Chime platform, part of a “multi-year partnership” for collaboration product development. Chime was launched by AWS in 2017 , but hasn’t grabbed attention in the same way as communication tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams in subsequent years.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. Maast offers payments, banking, lending and more as features in software provider’s platforms – with one relationship, contract and integration.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Startups have negative time to launch in many markets with Adobe, Microsoft, & Salesforce launching Gen AI enabled software in weeks.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

At Intercom, we aim to run less software. This allows us to develop teams of deep domain experts to support and enable product engineers as they build the next generation of Intercom, and provide world class observability tooling, scaling, reliability, and secure-by-default build patterns. . Our tooling allows for high availability.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software. Cloud LLM Infrastructure Microsoft OpenAI Snowflake Nvidia Databricks Mosaic Google Anthropic Oracle Cohere Amazon HuggingFace Microsoft has invested over $10b, plus significant development efforts to work with OpenAI.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How quickly do the fastest growing software companies build their teams? Above, I’ve charted the headcount growth rate for 10 of the fastest growing software companies in recent history. Above, I’ve charted the headcount growth rate for 10 of the fastest growing software companies in recent history.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Business Development Identify and assess partnership opportunities to drive growth Business Intelligence Turn data into insights to inform decision-making. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Invest in next-gen finance tooling.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

That means understanding your ideal customer profile, developing enablement materials to close those customers, and training new account executives to succeed in that effort consistently. Different roles in a company may have different goals for channel development. Internal Clarity. The sales team asks for more leads.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

TL;DR A tech stack refers to the collection of technologies utilized in developing an application. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services. A tech stack refers to the collection of technologies utilized in developing an application.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During those 30 years as an Open Source platform, multiple developers and professionals adopted and contributed to it to the point where, today, Linux is everywhere—supercomputers, AI, IoT, embedded devices, and so on. For the first twenty employees, we were working on developer relationships.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. 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. It makes no difference to anyone but you.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot. At Base10, they expect to see the speed of development and deployment accelerate so dramatically that it will make our heads spin. Let’s walk through some case studies. Drop in costs.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

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CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. Put another way, the user model describes the “who” of what your software does. First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands. Needless to say, Michael knows a thing or two about helping software and big tech manage their global marketing presence. Our first brand client in China was Intel.

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CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Behind the curtain, selling essentially the same software to different users and companies, again and again, relies on a distinct product architecture: secure multi-tenancy. The Single-Tenant architecture that dedicates specific software and infrastructure services to a single customer (in many ways similar to the world before cloud).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

But developing solid partnerships takes vision, grit, time and patience. ServiceNow is a workflow, low-code/no-code software company with over 1500 partners worldwide. Examples include AWS, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. There is a continued push to keep building great products at this point in a software company’s life.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? Next, they moved to credits, which are very popular, with AWS and Google Cloud being great examples of companies that are always giving credits out to startups. The bad news is there are a lot of companies developing VC partnership functions.

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IT World

APRIL 28, 2020

The public cloud and open source software are pretty much coupled these days. Also on InfoWorld: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which free tier is best? ]. Now that they are moving to the public cloud, both developers and infrastructure engineers are finding some very compelling reasons to “go open” in the cloud.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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BetterCloud

MAY 6, 2024

One key area of focus was the applications that IT leaders see as the most important in their current software landscape. Emerging from our survey in no particular order: Adobe Creative Cloud : A powerhouse suite offering design tools for graphic design, video editing, web development, and photography.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of cloud computing, exploring recent trends and developments. Understanding Cloud Computing and Recent Trends Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing resources, including storage, processing power, and software applications, over the internet.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

They offer a lot of benefits for your organizations, developers, and consumers while helping them follow the modern cybersecurity guidelines easily. With NIST mentioning a thorough guideline for application security and cloud infrastructure, it can be overwhelming for your development team to oversee all the changes all at once.

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Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. API vulnerability scanner API security testing ensures business data packets that move between two software applications and ip addresses are secure.

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