Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I had to install many other programs to replicate web-based email’s functionality: the client, the address book look up, modern search, and then tame all of the configuration flags. I had to learn vim first, and then I read piles of configuration examples to get things working properly. Most of the documentation isn’t great.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do people move into staff engineering roles? What is a staff engineer?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! If you care about your organization’s success, no matter what the industry, the knowledge in this book will help you a lot.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. He provides informative materials and tutorials that help developers improve the performance and speed of their software products. 3 Addy Osmani. 8 Sarah Drasner.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Before I became a software engineer, I worked as an editor and a journalist. In my case, the skills I learned while working as a journalist helped me to transition to a career in software engineering. Since then, the skills and lessons I’ve learned in software engineering have helped me write and publish my own book.

Software Review 104

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A friend of mine introduced me to a book that I highly recommend to everybody. And so, in the book, Mastering The Rockefeller Habits, which I would still recommend to everybody today, it talks about rhythm, data and priorities. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. And it worked great. Who did they report to?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

was a book called “The Phoenix Project” , written by Gene Kim. The core tenet of the book is that you only get value when you ship things. Our software engineers are actually called product engineers internally for that reasons. What’s one book that you would recommend every engineer read, and why?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

.” Navan Cofounder and CEO Ariel Cohen spoke with a16z General Partner Ben Horowitz about a wide range of topics, including how the company hopes to modernize the travel-booking experience via AI-powered agents—even if it takes a while for users to become comfortable with a new UI and UX.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In 1977, a British polymath named Christopher Alexander , who studied Math and Architecture at Cambridge and was awarded Harvard’s first PhD in architecture, published a book titled A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. These design patterns have infiltrated the curriculums and patois of computer scientists ever since.

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Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

There have been many great books and articles written on the topic of product-market fit. SaaS startup founders, product managers, UI designers and software engineers all have strong ideas and even stronger attachments to the SaaS products they build. Try, try, try again. The product proposes and the market judges.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I mean, my background is growth and we tried all of the growth hacks in the book, including the book that I wrote. Rather than paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income once they are employed and making over $50,000 a year.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for around 3 years at different companies such as IMC Pacific and Macquarie Group. Following his brief career as a software engineer, he transitioned into a Business Analyst and worked in this role at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then the Australian Securities Exchange.

Software Engineering 104

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

Software 77

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

One of the things that I’ve done is recommend books that are helpful to me. What books and reading has been interesting to you to help people understand what engineering leadership and management means? Edmond: Another book that I really like that’s less focused on management is Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Read more about this in my prior post. More about how we got here in my previous post. comparing you to others in your space.

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User Pilot

MARCH 27, 2023

Companies across the world can use The Room to hire top talent from Web Developers, Full Stack Software Engineers, through Data and Financial Analysts, to VAs. If you’re interested in seeing how Userpilot can help you achieve similar results and improve your user activation rate, book a demo now!

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

But software engineer Ken Kocienda, who worked there in the final … Even though hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every single day, very few people have been able to reveal the secrets and the stories behind designing them.

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User Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Continuously develop yourself through product management events, webinars , podcasts , books , and so on. Book a demo with our team, and we’ll show you how.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Mauss, a French sociologist, published a short book in 1925 titled The Gift. The group that received swag was three times more likely to book a meeting, and Outreach saw a 2.42x increase in opportunity value per prospect in the test group. saw three times more booked meetings and a huge increase in opportunity value.).

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Additionally, because digital products exist as either a digital asset or piece of software, they can easily be reproduced and repeatedly sold without manufacturers. Are you an artist, author, software engineer, or maybe just a hobbyist in your field? When it comes to selling digital products , your title doesn’t matter.

Marketplace as a Service 97

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help. The technical skills include a solid understanding of software development and system architecture. Book the demo to see how it can help your technical product managers. What is a technical product manager?

Management 105

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. If he didn’t fix it, he’d be fired.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 14, 2021

The other day I was re-reading my favorite book on data governance (and yes I have one), Non-Invasive Data Governance by Bob Seiner. Reading it reminded me of the Capability Maturity Model , from Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute. Here’s the picture that triggered my thinking: Did you see it? Look again.

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Audacix

AUGUST 10, 2021

Your software engineering team is probably not going to want to go through the pen testing process - nobody likes to be told they're wrong and also because "what would these security guys know about my application anyway??" So now you've chosen the web/mobile app penetration test that you want, but is that it?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

Everyone hears that and says IT, and I say, “You know, yeah—IT’s a part of it, but it’s mostly software engineers who are writing code and building software for small businesses for a marketing platform.” Once they left the house, I’d sit back down and read a fiction book for 15 minutes.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To start with what was great about it, Perplexity’s ability to send you down a rabbit hole was a major plus in my book. However, it didn’t make the list as you can’t upload files to it, striking it out in my book. Bizi is the side project of Joe Delgado, a software engineer here at Buffer.

AI Search 79

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

I hear you have an upcoming book coming out. And in May we’ll be coming out with a book that talks about the AI opportunity – the notion of how AI can make humans better at their jobs. The book was born out of many, many conversations we’ve had with customers who have said: “Okay, I’m with you.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Additionally, because digital products exist as either a digital asset or piece of software, they can easily be reproduced and repeatedly sold without requiring your business to deal with manufacturers. Are you an artist, author, software engineer, or maybe just a hobbyist in your field?

Marketplace as a Service 78

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Kellblog

JANUARY 11, 2021

Turns out, the other day I was re-reading my favorite book on data governance, Non-Invasive Data Governance by Bob Seiner, and it reminded me of the Capability Maturity Model , from Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute. But all that was just the warm-up for the big idea in this post: is repeatability enough?

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Audacix

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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. Book My Discovery Call Get AppSec Checklist. Would that be helpful?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Lin, who is known for his best-selling book Decode and Conquer. Your software engineer may not be the most vocal team member but it doesn’t mean she has nothing to offer, and not recognizing it can be costly. Once they know it, they can move on to recommend and implement relevant solutions.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

This can help your software engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities faster, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers. It can help your software engineering teams to detect and remediate vulnerabilities quickly and effectively, without you constantly having to rely on external security testing consultants.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

A software engineer running their own One Person Company has a critical hardware failure. This process will also help identify mistaken charges such as a double-booked hotel room or a card payment being deducted twice. Some bookkeeping software will even integrate directly with your apps.

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

As David Johnson, Senior Software Engineer, puts it, “My motivation for working at Stax for eight plus years has primarily been the culture and the ability to make a measurable impact. Stax is a fun place to work! .”

Payment Services 88

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Table Of Contents As a software engineering leader, you know application security is no longer an activity that you can palm off to someone else. With the increasing number of sensitive data security breaches, it's essential to have the right automated application security tools in place to protect your software.

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Audacix

AUGUST 3, 2018

Software testing has often been an afterthought for CIOs , software engineering managers and software development teams. If you need help in solving these challenges, or in cutting software testing time and finding more bugs before your application's users find them, speak to us understand how we will be able to help you.

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Audacix

APRIL 3, 2023

This can help your software engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities faster, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers. It can help your software engineering teams to detect and remediate vulnerabilities quickly and effectively, without you constantly having to rely on external security testing consultants.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

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