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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. Can you imagine a site reliability engineer managing 15 to 20 tokens, coordinating with finance teams to ensure proper treasury management, while ensuring high uptime? Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

Layer : application, platform, or infrastructure? In the cloud, AWS, Azure, & GCP have created about as much market cap as all the top 100 B2B & B2C publics built on cloud (Netflix, ServiceNow, AirBnb, etc). Moats : how to develop competitive advantage? But there are 100 applications compared to 3 infrastructure vendors.

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Signs We've Touched the Bottom

Tom Tunguz

Both Google & Microsoft announced growth rates in GCP & Azure that held steady from one quarter to the next. Amazon, Cloudflare, & Mongo announce soon. At last, we see a change in slope in the annual growth rates of the cloud services. The desire for AI is broad.

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[WEBINAR REPLAY] How to build a culture of security in your software development teams

Audacix

Building a culture of security in you software development teams is not an easy task, but its crucial if you want to minimise the chances of unforeseen cybersecurity disasters and unfortunate media appearances. How to build application security into your software development lifecycle. Would that be helpful?

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Cisco, Google reenergize multicloud/hybrid cloud joint development

IT World

Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud-development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. Check out what hybrid cloud computing is and learn what you need to know about multi-cloud.

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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

This can make it tricky to evaluate as an engineer, designer, product manager or CEO if the investment will bear fruit and whether one should keep going. I’ll explain how I think about these decisions as a product leader and give more context on the journey of developing entirely new products inside a company. Google on GCP?

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IaaS PaaS SaaS: Mastering The 3 Different Cloud Service Models

How To Buy Saas

Testing and Development: IaaS solutions make it quicker and more cost-effective for companies to set up and scale their testing and development environments. While IaaS provides infrastructural support, PaaS, as its name suggests, provides cloud platform support to customers. Why would you need PaaS?