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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

I started just with regular software development, doing software of different kinds. And so when Amazon called me and they’re like, “Hey you want to come with us and do you want to actually start the mobile services, backend business within AWS?” And then I started selling.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. Innovative startups.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this.

Cloud 100
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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

DevOps is really a set of ideas and practices that emphasise a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably. DevOps best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. Measure everything. Set up monitoring and alerts.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve done a ton of terrific sessions with the Twilio leadership over the years, including 4 different deep dives with Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder. Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

So product strategy decisions, vision documents. I think that storytelling is a bit of a lost art in software development and we’re starting to rediscover it. Or something where you’re seeing a face, because I think that human connection is really important. Harry Stebbings: Terrible metaphor.

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