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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. Building for scale. The top ten technical strategies to avoid. Multi-cloud architectures.

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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?

Tom Tunguz

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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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Data Teams are Becoming Software Teams : DevOps created a movement within software development that empowers developers to run the software they wrote. Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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Pursuing DevOps Momentum: Measuring what matters

CloudGeometry

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. For the last mile of software development, productivity is measured in the delivery of results over time.

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SaaS Payment Processing: 10 Questions to Ask When Comparing Solutions

FastSpring

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. Will it scale with you? Is it the interface?

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Top Themes in Data Transcript

Tom Tunguz

After a decade of expanding complexity in the modern data stack, companies are dramatically simplifying their architectures - and getting better results Second, we’re seeing a renaissance of scale-up computing. Content: I use my MacBook Pro to run 70 billion parameter models, which are equivalent to GPT 3.5 I did this in 15 minutes.

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