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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

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Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. Act I begins with IT Operations, where we’re supporting a large, complex revenue generating application.

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SayAhh’s Revenue Projections

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Part of the spend may be assigned to Cost of Goods Sold, part to Marketing, and part to General & Administrative, all of which can be separate line items on the Income Statement (the “where”). Capital vs. Operating). Subtracting the expenses from the revenues provides a forecast of cash flow from operations.

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It’s An Agile World

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I’ve been arguing for years to rebuild it from scratch using modern processes (agile), modern architecture (decoupled web services), and modern technology (rails), and everyone has said “it’s impossible and it’ll cost too much.” operates at seven 9s reliability. deploys in 30 seconds.

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Help a Denver Food Bank Stay in their Home

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If you have an office in Denver, just five miles away from you is a food bank operating out of a warehouse month to month just so it can help anyone who comes through their doors. To avoid losing their location, they are raising $800,000 which would cover the cost of the building, parking lot, closing costs, and some much-needed renovations.

Denver 92
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Is 2017 The Year Of Flat Headcount?

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And still others are profitable and have realized significant operating leverage in the past two quarters that they want to continue. A company with $10m+ of revenue that is growing at 50% or more can often get profitable within 12 months if it focuses on its operating costs.

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Disagree and Commit

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Notwithstanding the disappointing forecast for Q418 , Amazon’s recent operating performance has been spectacular. While Revenue Growth YOY has been strong, the real story has been YOY growth in Operating Income. The AWS numbers are remarkable to me – their YOY growth is 46% and their operating income is about 30%.

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Tariffs and Hardware Startups

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” This quickly evolved through “are there any ways around this” to land at “deal with the reality of increased cost, research, and compliance.” While some BigCos appear to be eating the cost of the tariff, this seems to be the exception. My fantasy at the beginning was “ignore and hope they go away.”

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