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Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose (Pod 554 + Video)

SaaStr

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. .

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SaaStr Podcast 453 (and Video): Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive With Jyoti Bansal

SaaStr

Bansal felt passionate about enhanced software delivery, the need that Harness meets for developers. AppDynamics helped develop and define a market, and Harness disrupted a market. Equally Challenging: Product-Market Fit, Recruitment, Developing Sales Treadmill. That builds great business.”. Key Takeaways.

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

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. Software delivery is measured by results, not just feature velocity. Read more about this in my prior post.

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

CloudGeometry

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there. It makes no difference to anyone but you.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. It’s not just isolated code changes that are shipped safely, our entire software delivery process aims to ensure that, at every stage, we are building products that are reliable and scalable by default.