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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower SaaS

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. Do you anticipate scale issues presently or in the future? You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa.

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One Line of Code Can Wipe a Billion Rows : Investing in Tobiko

Tom Tunguz

At small scale this may not seem important. More than that, Tobiko enables data engineers to operate with the same discipline as software developers: creating development environments, writing tests to ensure code performs as intended, & simulating changes to ensure one line of code doesn’t wipe a billion rows.

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5 Interesting Learnings from JFrog at $270,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So lots of folks talk about GitLab as a leading in software development and devops, but GitLab also has sort of a quieter cousin that also IPO’d: JFrog. JFrog started off as the #1 binary repository and has expanded from there as a multi-product suite for software development. We’ve seen this before.

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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. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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OpenView Partners with Buildkite to Empower Software Development Teams to Deploy Faster with CI/CD

OpenView Labs

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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SaaStr Podcast 457 (and Video): Building Your Ideal Customer Profile: Target Your Product, Sales and Marketing Effectively

SaaStr

But Wong offers a word of caution: “If you don’t get your ICP right, you kind of become this custom software development shop for your top customers.” Once you accelerate to significant scale growth, it’s vital to get an outsider’s perspective. Keep your eyes on the prize of your ultimate ICP. . Thriving ($100 million +).

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A Technology Innovation Leading to a Go-To-Market Advantage

Tom Tunguz

The best way I’ve found to describe it is a technology innovation leading to a go-to-market advantage. 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. Initially, technology differentiates offerings.

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