OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’re in the modern era of software development. Traditional waterfall methodologies of the 80s and 90s are transitioning to more iterative agile development, and with that a DevOps culture has emerged. Companies are shipping software faster and more frequently, a shift that requires tools that can keep up.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As engineers, one of the fundamental things we have to learn is the extent to which we can break things – how do we get the right balance between shipping safely and shipping fast? Almost 3 years in as a product engineer here, I have changed my perspective. As with everything in engineering, things are not black and white.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective? Things are scaling faster. Yammer certainly scaled faster than I scaled back in the day with EchoSign or Aaron when he was here, but the pace of Slack. Jason : A lot has changed since then.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

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. Perhaps the advances in infrastructure should reduce software cost.

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 13, 2023

Why can’t we escape hands-on cloud operations work to unlock software development nirvana (aka frictionless, faster development and deployment processes)? Put another way: you could make your software stack serve both specific business needs and general-purpose platform tooling. Optimized software development throughput.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

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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SaaStr

JANUARY 15, 2021

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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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!),

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

These customer success processes are often inefficient, haven’t been scaled to engage the full customer base and are hard to measure. Lean customer success is a continuous improvement methodology focused on engineering customer success processes to maximize their impact, efficiency and scale.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2019

The world’s greatest engineers were not working on stuff for parents. It’s a competitive job market, especially for really great engineers and so the fact that we can offer a really balanced lifestyle I think really does appeal to people. How are you trying to scale it? It also, it solved a problem for me.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In other words, in the highly competitive software industry, simply hiring any random software developer won’t do. So I’ve compiled our best tips for finding and hiring a software engineer at a startup so you can be sure […]

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Swimm, a cutting-edge continuous documentation solution provider, is helping engineering teams work in harmony and focus on innovation. With more and more SaaS companies adopting this technology on a global scale, Swimm has also announced an impressive 27.6M Swimm and Frontegg have a massive effect on developer joy and productivity.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The obvious benefit is the ability to scale growth. Growth engineer : This is a software developer or engineer who focuses on implementing technical solutions to support growth initiatives. Should you bother having a dedicated growth team instead of a one-person army?

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Audacix

JUNE 22, 2023

Cyber Chief is a cutting-edge application and cloud security solution that helps software development and DevOps teams secure their web apps, APIs and cloud platforms without having to seek the help of cybersecurity vendors or experts.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Today at 300 versus…How much of your customers is the insertion point still the developers day one? Jason : Without engineering viewing sales as some sort of tax.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

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.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there.

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams In fact, it is entirely reasonable to ask about “Security and _” for almost any aspect of your SaaS application and platform. Bear in mind that they are not just looking to evaluate the elegance of your software development lifecycle.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. We know that conversion rates for SaaS and software companies will vary by 30% or more just based on the checkout experience. Eric McGee Senior Network Engineer, TRGDatacenters.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you look at developers, we just don’t have enough of them to write all of the software that the world needs. A lot of the work that developers do is just toil, so having a tool that can help make the job of software development more delightful and to help software developers be more productive… You mentioned Meta and Llama 2.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Engineering Manager The Engineering Manager’s duty is to plan, design, and oversee projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Frontegg

MAY 20, 2021

Even the smallest code changes require building and deploying a new version of the whole software. Additionally, scaling application-specific functions means you have to scale the entire application. Monolithic applications can be difficult to scale horizontally, as the entire application must be replicated.

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TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When you’re outgrowing your in-house software development team and need to bring on engineers to help with a specific task or challenge, outstaffing can be a great solution. But before you jump headlong into this pursuit, there are a few legal factors you need to consider.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The foundation models we use today aren’t just beating humans at Jeopardy, or playing Go at a supernatural level, or powering better recommendation engines—they’re changing and creating new user behavior across art, design, games, medicine, coding, and even human relationships. You have this perverse economy of scale.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. We found that engineers and product managers didn’t want to talk to salespeople.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

They can scale up or down as required. Provide easy, fast, and cost-effective solutions to manage workload without having to deploy in-house hardware or software. Testing and Development: IaaS solutions make it quicker and more cost-effective for companies to set up and scale their testing and development environments.

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User Pilot

APRIL 6, 2023

TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. There are some tell-tale signs that your product may be over-engineered. What are the negative consequences of excessive engineering?

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Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I’d never been exposed to software developers and the mysterious world of coding. I was introduced to a team of software engineers who’d been working on tech that aligned audio and text so that you could follow it like karaoke. I had no idea what Mozfest was, but – open to adventure – I went anyway.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 10, 2016

Software is a competitive world. Sales and marketing software vendors have flourished, growing from a few hundred to several thousand in the span of a few years. The same is true for vertical software, developer software, and every category in between. Initially, technology differentiates offerings.

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User Pilot

MAY 7, 2024

CometChat – best for sending audio and video in-app messages CometChat is an in-app chat software development kit for calls and messages. The higher-tiered plan, Scale, is available upon request. CometChat lets you test out its Scale plan for free up to 25 users. Source: CometChat. Omnichannel marketing.

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Frontegg

MAY 24, 2021

The software development world has changed dramatically over the last few years. Following the SaaS revolution, almost no software products are sold today outside a cloud and subscription model. Scaling ?—?Scaling By scale ?—? Easier to scale ?—? Getting yourself familiar with the code ? —? Cool, isn’t it?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We talk a lot about scaling when there’s VC funding involved, but bootstrapping is a whole other game. Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

Luckily for me, I found myself in a position where I was leading a design team in New York and an organization that was transitioning from waterfall software development to agile software development. Examples of scaling challenges from Jeff Gothelf’s talk on Scaling Lean. ” I hear that a lot.

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