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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

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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. DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

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Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. Feature agility is sexy.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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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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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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More quality costs less (formerly known as “The Boy Scout rule) : Martin Fowler, an intellectual hero of mine, prefers to refer to technical debt as cruft – the difference between the current code and how it would ideally be. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

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That means they’ve got plenty of software they already depend on that needs to work with whatever your SaaS product can do for them. Think about iconic logos for reference customers, certification to IT industry standards like HIPAA or SOC2, even an improved exit valuation. How do you respond? Seems like a short list? Not so fast.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

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Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). At the end of the day it’s optimized for storage, not access (this is something I’ll refer to a lot). A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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