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

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software. Adopting the “best tools”.

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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Semantic understanding of code and ephemeral developer environments enables data engineers to reduce costs and work more fluidly together (SQLMesh).

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

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Until your better-and-faster solution reaches those customers in production, that great idea that’s somewhere in the software development?

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Choose standard technology.

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

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. And then I started selling.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

SaaS companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. Consider Stax’s partner program.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience, but there’s more to it than feature agility.