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Investing in Upstash

Andreessen Horowitz

By that, we mean services that scale to zero, are globally distributed, and scale up based on demand. The benefit is that each service can scale up and down independently, but it requires an elastic caching or queuing mechanism to buffer the interactions between services.

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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. But you're in luck, because successful DevOps practitioners leave clues and patterns that you can start implementing today to supercharge the value from your DevOps program.

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10 sureshot practices to supercharge your DevOps effectiveness

Audacix

Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Bring such people into the DevOps fold, share learnings and build trust.

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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?

Tom Tunguz

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. Infrastructure-as-a-service provided by Amazon, Google and Microsoft among others empowers applications to scale as users demand. Voice isn’t broadly used to input data.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability. Big data has been a game-changer.

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

Baremetrics

Your application grows more complex, your customers 10x, then 100x, which means the amount of data you’re storing and moving around grows by 1000x. 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. Lessons Learned.

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Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Erica has led New Relic through massive growth, scaling the company’s enterprise business 10x since she joined the business pre-IPO. Erica will share the five critical steps (and some lessons learned along the way) for scaling in the enterprise. We operate at great scale. Want to see more content like this?

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