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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. Advances like chatbots haven’t yet impacted software use at scale.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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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. Cultural alignment within an engineering organization is necessary, but not sufficient. Read more about this in my prior post.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate. Lockdown and the pandemic, to paraphrase Mike Tyson , have punched us in the face with Everything-as-a-Service. In the face of this sudden acceleration of SaaS-ification, DevOps need to do more to accelerate the transition. It’s customers who pay the price.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software. The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion in 2012. Head of Product. Team SIze: 4 -5.

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How Your Startup's Org Chart Changes Your Product

Tom Tunguz

He worked on the Pascal compiler among other notable software projects. The products software teams created reflected their organizational structure. Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. So, small teams of developers can become nearly fully independent of the larger engineering organization.