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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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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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Thanks to Bee, ChartMogul, Maast, SecureFrame, and StratusGreen for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Secureframe allows companies to get compliant within weeks, rather than months and monitors 100+ services, including AWS, GCP, and Azure. We offer comprehensive services including the selection, implementation and support of industry-leading cloud-based software applications, custom development, data extraction and integration.

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Investing in Tigris

Andreessen Horowitz

The traditional clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure) are getting dated. Lately, we’ve seen the rise of a number of hosting platforms that are better aligned with modern development practices. These include Fly.io, Railway, and even front-end platforms such as Netlify and Vercel (which sometimes are built on traditional clouds).

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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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Thanks to Unit, Everstage, Aiven, Zip, and Mission Cloud for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Everstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that removes recurring busywork for your Ops and Finance teams and provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to your customer-facing teams. With Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications.

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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.