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

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

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How and why we spent $400K on AWS in 4 months

Baremetrics

It distracts the team from writing new features + fixing bugs. You have to face challenging tradeoffs, the more of your team’s time you buy with hosted services, the less customization and higher cost you incur. Wait… that’s bad news. Decide how much DevOps you want in your Development. down the road.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Team expertise.

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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. 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.

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Ayoa Review 2021: Features, Functionality, Pricing, and More

All that Saas

In this Ayoa review, we will look at OpenGenius’s powerful mind mapping and online collaboration platform. It doesn’t matter what the size of the team is, they can do it all, plan projects, conduct meeting, and multi-task. Teams need to collaborate for ideas, execute projects, and increase knowledge to cultivate stellar work.

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Heap vs Pendo: Which is the Superior Product Analytics Tool?

User Pilot

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. While Userpilot is developing funnel analysis functionality, you can achieve the same results by tagging and tracking Goals. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria.

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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 best practices that will help you to run your software development projects smoothly. But the list of best practices varies from expert to expert.