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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business. They’re based on my experiences working in technology, the practical application of methods in varied use cases, and speaking with peers about their strategies and successes.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or searching for ways to make it work better for your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline. 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.

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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.

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

Clouded Judgement

As Frank Slootman (Snowflake CEO) said, “Enterprises are also realizing that they cannot have an AI strategy without a data strategy to base it on.” Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

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

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? ” I’ve never heard that.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. How the hell does that happen? We mostly succeeded.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

For one, there was never enough real estate, given we were in San Francisco and Zynga on Pinterest weren’t the only companies with a real estate strategy of being under one roof. And honestly, we’re limiting ourselves by proximity on recruiting a diverse best-in-class team. There just wasn’t enough square footage.