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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

Building Agents at Cloud-Scale Speaker: Antje Barth ( AWS ) – Session video As with Microsoft’s keynote featuring Asha Sharma, this session with AWS’s Antje Barth set off my “oh no, vendor flogging ahead” warning lights. AWS Strands Agents (SA).

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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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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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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints. Data Products : The combination of large language models and data teams becoming software teams has led to data products. The same thing is happening in data.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Do you think this approach to writing books in tech literature is a thing that you can reuse, or that should be reused as a way of exploring different types of roles or areas in technology? And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy. Infrastructure costs don’t matter at all.”

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

The world of technology start-ups has been good to me—it’s provided for my family, it’s given me a wonderful amount of freedom to live my best life outside of work, and it’s been intellectually engaging and challenging throughout. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups.