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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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How Generative AI Will Turn Traditional SaaS Models On Their Head with AWS VP of Generative Builders Adam Seligman

SaaStr

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. 2 It’s expensive and time-consuming to build software. The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog.

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SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS: How the 3 cloud service models differ | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

These stand for software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Let's take a quick look at what it means to use software, platform, or infrastructure as service. Software as a service (SaaS) is when a provider hosts an application and makes it available to subscribers over the internet.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

However, we’ve had a great team. They could solve that by saying, “Hey, let’s put our product in more data centers in AWS,” or in whatever hosting product they were using. It’s not like, “I’m going to get really good at this particular thing.” Academics are paid to do that.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Maria : I think for many of our organizations, we’re automation, we are technology. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. I mean, literally.