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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. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Of course, not at scale.

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

Clouded Judgement

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!),

Data 130
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Tech Stack: Definition, Components, and Building Tips

User Pilot

Your tech stack not only defines the backbone of your business operations but also influences your ability to innovate, scale, and deliver exceptional value to your customers. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure offer infrastructure services that support backend development.

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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

Google on GCP? While we are used to startups needing a decent amount of time to find product/market fit (sometimes taking many years), companies that are scaling do not generally think on such long timelines. I liken this journey to the myth of finding a rainbow that leads to a pot of gold.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. Given the speed and intensity of competition in this market, it’s essential to SaaS success at any scale — and at any point on the lifecycle of your SaaS product offering. Let’s take a closer look at what that means and how it works.

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The State of Cloud Marketplaces: A Look into the Data, Trends, and Findings for Software Sellers

OpenView Labs

Every year Tackle surveys sellers and buyers at software companies across the spectrum—from less than $10M to over $1 billion in ARR, across multiple industries, and in roles like alliances/partnerships, sales, operations, product/development, finance, marketing, IT, and more.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

The Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. Ali: There’s a scaling law. If you’re scaling the parameters up, you have to scale the data with it. If you don’t have that, you’re not going to get the bang for the buck from scaling. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

AI 96