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SaaStr Podcast #225: Stephen Burton, VP of Smarketing at Harness Discusses How To Create True Alignment Between Marketing and Sales

SaaStr

Stephen Burton is VP of Smarketing at Harness, the industry’s first continuous delivery as a service platform. Speaking of developer-first, how can startups compete in a war for talent against FB and Google? For Steve, what does devops really mean? What does Steve believe is the right culture for devops teams?

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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. One of the blog posts was about this Yahoo!

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

Intercom, Inc.

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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How JumpCloud Handles Over 100 Million Unique Daily Data Points From Their Product

OpenView Labs

JumpCloud is a Directory-as-a-Service® that securely manages and connects users to their systems, applications, files and networks. Like almost any other SaaS startup, we use Salesforce as our central CRM system and source of truth when it comes to sales and customer information. Involve your (data) engineering team early.

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