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Investing in EngFlow

Andreessen Horowitz

Build is one of the most foundational tools for software engineering. Traditionally, it is the step in software development that takes the files written by engineers and compiles them into machine runnable code, but build has become so much more.

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Best DAST tools for DevOps & software development teams

Audacix

Table Of Contents The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. How does DAST work? Number of user roles in your application.

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Best DAST scanning tool for DevOps-enabled software development teams

Audacix

The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST scanning tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. How does DAST work? Number of web services that require security testing.

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Why we invested in Athenian

Point Nine Land

Jira, Github, and CircleCI), most engineering leaders are missing out on a lot of the data that they’d need to reliably measure and improve the velocity and quality of their teams and processes. Also, engineers are amongst the highest-paid employees and I have yet to meet a tech company that says “we have too many great engineers”.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower SaaS

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer.

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How to Collaborate, Manage, and Work with Developers featuring Twilio’s Jeff Lawson

SaaStr

In fact, many founders and CEOs struggle with simply talking to their engineers and communicating their needs. The mysterious nature of engineers is also their superpower as they build products that make the seemingly impossible possible. At his core, Jeff Lawson is a software developer first, and the CEO of Twilio second.

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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

I started just with regular software development, doing software of different kinds. The other thing is really introducing in the engineering team the concept of working backwards from the customer and really turning it into a principle that everybody can understand. Because engineers they tend to start from the how.