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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

The results were immediate and dramatic: Q4 2024 : $10M ARR (4x growth in 3 months) Q1 2025 : $70M ARR (7x growth in another 3 months) June 2025 : $100M+ ARR That’s a 2,500% year-over-year growth rate—numbers that make even ChatGPT’s ascent look almost modest. AI is incredible at writing code.

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Global AI Race: Top 7 Countries Leading Full-Stack AI in 2025

How To Buy Saas

MLOps/DevOps: Tools to version, monitor, and deploy models (CI/CD for AI). This fuels a robust ecosystem of AI chips (Nvidia, AMD), cloud AI services (AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, Google Cloud AI), and SaaS integration (Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Firefly). Core ML Models: Algorithms and model training (e.g.

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The $4.5B Board Meeting: Inside Snowflake’s AI Transformation and the CEO Who Bets His Company on Their Platform

SaaStr

Without an internal champion whose future is tied to yours, you’re just a vendor getting lip service. Business Users Drive More Consumption Growth : The biggest unlock isn’t more data engineers—it’s enabling any business user to query data like ChatGPT. DevOps Engineers may see the most dramatic change.

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The ZeroOps journey: Mind The Gap

CloudGeometry

Ergo: DevOps, the magic that works through transparent cross-functional collaboration…except when it doesn’t. Is “the” new answer to DevOps now ZeroOps or NoOps? Neither is the secret ingredient that developers need to include to achieve robust, change-proof DevOps. This is what the founders of DevOps envisioned.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

SMSM has one significant drawback: targeted at dev and devops folks, it is configured and run through the AWS command line interface. ” I also began to realize that Session Manager was, in effect, a limited-scope VPN for AWS services only, without much of a user interface. Why invest precious time on such a limited solution?

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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DeepSeek vs Claude vs Mistral: Top GPT Competitors in 2025

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Once-dominant ChatGPT (GPT-4) sparked a global AI race, and by 2025 there are powerful new alternatives. In this post we compare three rising stars DeepSeek, Anthropics Claude, and Mistral against the gold-standard GPT-4. The Rise of GPT Competitors Since ChatGPTs 2022 debut, many GPT competitors have emerged.