Tech
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Where is the boundary between MVP and a fully-functional product?
Why do some engineering teams get stuck iterating on MVP-quality code? Why is it so hard to throw the MVP away and start from scratch? Some key signs that you’re outgrowing your initial tech stack
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Do you need to go to CTO School?
What CTOs at fast-growing startups can learn with continuing education? Project A’s CTO, Stephan Schulze, shares recommended resources
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Should you try to measure developer productivity?
What exactly do you measure when you have so many data points? CTO Stephan shares his views on filtering the signals from the noise
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What’s the next career step for a senior developer?
You could go down the leadership and management path and become a CTO. But is that the only path available?
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We cut our AWS bill by 65% after moving to Lambda — Part 2: here’s how we did it
Moving our services from containers to serverless functions only required a little bit of refactoring and helped us reduce expensive NAT Gateway traffic
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We cut our AWS bill by 65% after moving to Lambda — Part 1: it’s not for everyone
The four factors that made Lambda a great fit for our project and why we decided to use FaaS (Functions as a Service) instead of CaaS (Containers-as-a-Service)
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How to market to developers — according to a CTO
Industry experience and highly targeted content will take you a long way; our CTO Stephan Schulze explains how marketers could reach “tech people” and what skills you need to talk the talk
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What startups should know about observability
If your tech team is tiny, what do you prioritize? Here’s a list of some vital signs that you should always keep an eye on
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Is your development project in jeopardy?
Let’s talk about a few common red flags and explore the best way to raise them before it’s too late
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Post-mortems don’t have to be painful
How to run an effective and peaceful post-mortem and document what you’ve learned so that it doesn’t happen again
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To roll back or not to roll back? How to handle critical incidents in production
What key decisions do you need to make ? What do you do after you’ve resolved the incident? Project A CTO Stephan Schulze gives his advice
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Discussing a16z’s “Cost of Cloud” Analysis
Starting in the cloud is a no-brainer if you’re a small fish. It’s cheap and convenient. But it might not stay that way when you get bigger
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Streaming analytics just got a whole lot easier
Analyzing Dogecoin tweet sentiment in real-time with the Quix platform. A hands-on tutorial
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Agile for Startups: Use Scrum as a toolbox, not a doctrine
Many startups follow Scrum to the letter, slowing themselves down with too much process too early. Why not pick and choose your processes?
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Hey, tech startups — you don’t need to build the perfect company website
It might seem like a trivial task compared to building your actual product, but some companies end up spending way too much time and money on their websites