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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Can you imagine a site reliability engineer managing 15 to 20 tokens, coordinating with finance teams to ensure proper treasury management, while ensuring high uptime? Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Mid-stage startups. ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers. They are called product engineers. Best in class public companies (e.g.

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[WEBINAR REPLAY] How to build a culture of security in your software development teams

Audacix

How to build application security into your software development lifecycle. How to protect your cloud console with GCP/Azure/ AWS cloud console pentests. Instead, you will see how other top SaaS companies achieve their software security goals within budget and despite their software engineering teams constantly growing and changing.

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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

OpenView Labs

It’s wild how many software-engineer-focused products just land them on a blank screen after signup and expect them to click around and figure out how to connect it to their Kubernetes instance, or whatever. If your product’s value isn’t apparent very quickly, you’re in trouble.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

By combining these techniques, application vulnerability scanning tools can effectively uncover security gaps in an application, helping software engineering managers proactively address them before they are exploited by malicious actors. How often should I be using a vulnerability scanner on my web applications and APIs?

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

And we need to find a way to acknowledge these folks, and so I talk to Rick Boone, Senior Software Engineer and Strategic Advisor to the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, who’s a great example of this. And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy.