CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. Are you growing and want to scale? If you want to scale, you need to make the investment of time and money and make sure your infrastructure suits your size of business.

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SaaStr

JUNE 27, 2019

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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Audacix

JUNE 22, 2023

Cyber Chief is a cutting-edge application and cloud security solution that helps software development and DevOps teams secure their web apps, APIs and cloud platforms without having to seek the help of cybersecurity vendors or experts.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. You will continue to expand and iterate based on this basic model as you grow: Founder/CEO. Team Size: 12. Head of Product. Team SIze: 4 -5. Positions Needed: PMs and Designers. Head of Sales.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2019

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. What were Steve’s biggest takeaways from seeing the hyper-scaling at AppDynamics? What can leaders do to turn this into reality? * What does Steve mean when he says, “marketers need to embrace the developer first mindset?”

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CloudGeometry

JANUARY 15, 2022

Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. For a deep dive, have a look at the AWS Definitions – SaaS Lens ; for a deeper dive, see the Google DevOps Catalog here. Or just drop us a line.

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Audacix

JANUARY 31, 2024

Once you have a clear idea of all your drawbacks and the gaps where automation testing tools can be beneficial for you, you can consult with a web app pentesting services company to know about the services and tools that they offer. But, with everyone buzzing about automated security testing, why should you consider doing that?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. the ability to offload more IT tasks to a remote vendor.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2019

So what’s the key to having happy developers? A joyful, transparent development experience. As we keep building out our own platform so teams can customize Intercom for their own needs, we’ve loved getting to know the great group of developers and partners building apps for our customers and for themselves.

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Audacix

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Or maybe you're looking to shift left with application security so that you can build a culture of security within your development team? A better investment of your time and money will be a pentesting as a service model, which will help you build a structure of web app security that grows and adapts to your software development environment.

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Audacix

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Even after knowing the massive difference that automated vulnerability scanning tools can make, many organizations are hesitant to integrate application security tools in the software development life cycle. Similarly, testers and developers need to know about these features of application security tools.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 26, 2021

stars on the most popular software review platforms (G2, Capterra, and GetApp – all of which use a 5-star rating scale). Overall SaaS Award – Customer Service Category Winners: AppFolio Investment Management. Overall SaaS Award – Development + DevOps Category Winners: InfluxData.

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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. It has certainly unlocked a measure of collaboration, productivity, feature velocity, and innovation within SaaS software development previously unseen.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 29, 2021

Identity and access management has always been an area of interest for enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) investors. But historically, it’s been hard to scale. Eliza Loring: The notion that “developers don’t care about security” couldn’t be further from the truth. 406 Ventures. . Are you building an IAM tool?

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In less simple terms, it’s a combination of machine learning, data engineering, and development operations. The goal is to provide a more streamlined process for developing and creating machine learning systems, allowing business administrators, data scientists, marketers, and IT engineers to cooperate on the same level.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A few weeks later, we were already running a beta version of the first product capability-as-a-service for a design partner. Can you afford to build endless subscription tier enforcement mechanisms, freemium support, trial support, self-service administration, onboarding forms, and different signup methods?

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BetterCloud

JUNE 10, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud, Stephen championed and implemented DevOps practices at some of the most recognizable tech companies on the planet, including MuleSoft and Salesforce. Over time, my personal mission began to develop and I became really passionate about helping the world feel heard.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as Product-Led Growth (PLG).

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a series of articles, we will share our experiences about: Our journey to AWS EKS (Kubernetes managed service). Being in the subscription analytics space means data-intensive operations, large volumes, and the ability to often scale accordingly. Lack of modern cloud features and managed services. Service interoperability.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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Audacix

MAY 23, 2018

So you're on the hunt for test automation services for your web or mobile app, right? There are thousands of test automation service providers willing to grab every last dollar off you. Is it the quality of applications that allow your customers to spend more money on your goods or services?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 13, 2023

Why can’t we escape hands-on cloud operations work to unlock software development nirvana (aka frictionless, faster development and deployment processes)? Two concepts have recently come into vogue in reducing friction between developers and their cloud infrastructure: NoOps and ZeroOps. It’s the other constant.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 23, 2020

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as product led growth (PLG).

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Paymo makes a case for work management software to aid in this - and how using both to fill in unavoidable gaps gives you the freedom to begin with an individual task, work on it, develop it over time, and even turn it into a project where need be. GitLab, the DevOps software we know and love, just got even better with its 11.8

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When should companies offer services? Speaking of, we go beyond the typical discussion of product-market fit into the concept of product-market-sales fit, and what that means for product design, to services, to pricing and packaging, to product management, and more. They become all about sales and learning sales and scaling sales.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Twilio is a platform that creates easier communication by enabling messages, VoIP and phones to be embedded in mobile, web, and desktop applications, giving businesses the ability to have better communication with the customers with their API integrations to make it a toolkit for every developer’s need. How is it helping them scale?

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Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

System and Organisation Controls 2 (SOC 2) is an audit report that certifies to trustworthiness of services provided by a service organization, particularly software companies. Which is why correctly setting the scope is an important part of SOC 2 preparation services. Does a SaaS startup need to be SOC 2 compliant?

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Audacix

MAY 27, 2022

The unfortunate fact is that most penetration testing service providers do a really horrible job of helping you, the customer, understanding three critical decision-making questions: What type of penentration test do you need? How will their penetration testing services actually help you (beyond a 50-page penetration test report)?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

How does PagerDuty gain a sense of company morale at scale? 326: Gusto’s Lexi Reese walks you through scaling high performance teams. This podcast is an excerpt from Lexi’s session at SaaStr Scale. One is large scale customer events and the other is community events. What tools do they use? *

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Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Most of these services capture webpage availability, average web page load time, and web page functionality, among other performance indicators. We have picked out the seven best website monitoring services to get your site up and running and staying healthy. How To Choose The Best Website Monitoring Service For You.

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

It’s also forced me to inject myself earlier in the SDLC process, to prevent wasted time when someone starts developing off a library that will break against our policy. We need engineering teams to code fixes, or Platform Services to modify infrastructure, or IT to enable security features. Weekly check-ins.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 24, 2023

You can, thus, maximize the benefits you derive from this method by following its fundamental concepts, including: Visualizing the workflow: In this case, you can utilize an electronic Kanban board or a physical board to visualize the steps you are currently using to do your work or deliver services. What is Scrum?

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

Start assessing what you will need to do by reviewing the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar design principles and Google’s DevOps tech: Shifting left on security. #2 Bear in mind that they are not just looking to evaluate the elegance of your software development lifecycle. Nothing scares an enterprise customer like security risk.

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