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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

“While IT services such as applications development and deployment and project-oriented services will be the largest category of spending in 2017 ($275 billion), software purchases will experience strong growth (7.9% Additionally, research shows that in 2015, only 29% of in-house software development projects succeeded.

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

Clouded Judgement

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) Iceberg leaned into the git functionality that software developers have become accustomed to. If you want your data platform to run like those at Netflix, Salesforce, Stripe, AirBNB and many others (i.e.

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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

Start early as finding the right PM for your company might take a while (often a few months). If you like what you read in 2. Invite the candidate to a face-to-face or a Zoom interview. Ask more questions around the tasks and what they do in their current role with the perspective to understand if they would thrive in your environment.