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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Our code pushes take another six minutes. Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. On average we deploy new code fifty times a day. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. Throwing out a lot of code.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I dont think so.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. he also helps out with cranking out the code). 14 Comments • Nov 15, 2010 +1 for use of Platonic.

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The unimportance of product names

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Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Got a web design project in mind? 27 Apr 10.