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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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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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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). for Athena which charges in the manner) Audits and Data Quality: Iceberg brings a lot of software engineering best practices to data engineering.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. In the world where tech talent is so hard to find and to recruit, what are your software engineers spending their time on? So there’s the flat rate pricing that we’ve all experienced.

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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. How often should I be using a vulnerability scanner on my web applications and APIs?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

With a background in advertising and publishing, startups and software sales along with executive events, Becky has diversified her network and her knowledge. When I am not working, I am lucky enough to spend time with my 3 kiddos (two human, one fur) exploring new cities and attending their sports events. Emmy Johnson.

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