Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Data teams are becoming software engineering teams. Like the Devops movement, the Dataops movement aims to scale the use of data within companies without increasing the headcount of the data team. I learned a tremendous amount about the way modern data teams, who leverage software engineering disciplines, operate.

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Data Government Scale Headcount 218

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 1, 2023

Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Engineering 25% 40% 10% Overall - - 13% See assumptions here 1 This thought experiment highlights a few ideas to validate : AI initiatives focused on cost-reduction should start with engineering.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

“When you begin a project, the software that you are ‘going to build’ always looks better than the software someone else already has because you haven’t yet run into the limitations that inevitably show up in software engineering. As such, we will buy wherever we can,” writes Timothy Campos, former Facebook CIO.

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VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development Engineering 45

Chart Mogul

MARCH 10, 2023

Slack’s magic in their use of PLG was that they were landing with software engineers in tech companies that were probably 40 to 50% of the overall company headcounts and very influential. In other sectors, that’s not always the case.

VP of Engineering 52

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OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. Open source can provide a number of different advantages for a business, on both the consumption and production end of the spectrum.

Business 52

Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) for Athena which charges in the manner) Audits and Data Quality: Iceberg brings a lot of software engineering best practices to data engineering.

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

Start early as finding the right PM for your company might take a while (often a few months). Give the candidate ~5 real examples of the kind of things you have to prioritize: customer integrations, feature requests, strategic releases, bugs, database extracts, opportunistic features… and ask them to prioritize. An organizational task.

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