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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

The data warehouse (Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery) provided ACID guarantees, let you write SQL to retrieve data, came with powerful query engines to optimize the retrieval of data, offered an engine to transform, manipulate and organize tables, and wrapped all of this inside tight security and governance policies.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

Our options were Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure. More importantly, a few of our engineers had prior professional experience using various AWS services extensively in production systems. Managed Kubernetes was another major factor to consider, and this was head to head with Google Cloud (GCP).

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Like none of that would be possible, we’ve got a very strong engineering and product team. We all see the positive effects of having a great engineering team. As I mentioned, a good engineering team like challenges.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

This is a not one-sided convenience to just make life easier for the technology side: it’s a delivery model that structures how resources within the SaaS platform serve your customers. Another essential benefit of identity in a tenant context is that it aids in capturing and analyzing events from logs & metrics.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. It’s really important to turn things around, and we all know about customer-centric design and engineering. That hasn’t changed.

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