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Gartner: SaaS Will Still Grow 18% in 2023 to $200 Billion Worldwide. And Another 18% in 2024.

SaaStr

A few of us are seeing no macro impacts, but probably the biggest tell are Cloud platform giants — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. All are still growing at very strong rates. But all are growing more slowly than a year ago, and even more so than 2 years ago. But they are still growing. The Cloud is still growing.

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What’s New at Google Cloud with CMO Alison Wagonfeld

SaaStr

Google Cloud Platform, on the other hand, is in a very different set that also competes with Microsoft, but AWS is considered their biggest competitor in the market. What they’re seeing with GenAI and Google Cloud is an opportunity to grab share from AWS. Right now, 70% of the GenAI startups are using Google Cloud.

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Ensuring Intercom’s business continuity during uncertain times

Intercom, Inc.

We are conducting interviews and onboarding new employees remotely. All of Intercom’s production infrastructure is provided as a service to Intercom by Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is the leading cloud provider in the industry, and we leverage their portfolio of globally redundant services to ensure Intercom runs reliably.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. Do you need your prospective buyer to connect your tool into their AWS account and then load in a ton of data in order for them to see the product in action?

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Our engineers also write a lot of Ruby code, which knits together a lot of AWS, infrastructure, platform and SaaS technologies that form the core of Intercom’s backend infrastructure. We quickly discounted this as it didn’t fit with our three pillars of Run Less Software and decided to consolidate on MySQL, specifically on AWS MySQL.

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The Pros and Cons of the Backdoor Search

Kellblog

This is commonly known as a backdoor search, I guess because you’re sneaking out the back door to interview candidates. Arguably, the normal order of operations. Start search and then terminate. More formally, it’s known as a confidential search. If the candidate turns out a mishire you are going to feel awfully alone.