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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. And, it will lead the developer to write badly normalized databases. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Agree with BillG.