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I Asked 50+ Developers How They Buy Software. Here’s What I Learned.

OpenView Labs

That’s why I interviewed more than 50 developers in DevOps, DevSecOps, and generalist back-end roles about how they prefer to discover, try, and purchase software. From these conversations, I learned a ton about what devs are looking for in a software website, in developer documentation, in onboarding, and even in sales interactions.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

Boss, a build your own search service, and they contacted me. When I first joined Uber, I was actually hired as a DevOps manager, which was kind of funny in the sense that I literally didn’t know what DevOps was. One of the things I found as I’m desperately Googling “What is DevOps?”, product called Yahoo!