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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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any real-world engineering project ;-). GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. We eventually ended up converting everything to SQLAlchemy’s lowest-level language for constructing SQL (one step away from raw SQL). is it worth the engineering or product cost?) Run with extra load. nginx for the frontend server.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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So the process in B2B looks a bit like this (simplified): Visitor → MQL → SQL → customer. But in an account-based marketing thing, you might even want to throw up some things like Demandbase on the high end to LeadLander on the low end that do help you resolve IP addresses into companies, so you know which companies hit your website.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. Matt Sherman.

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Startup Resources

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Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Check them out. But thatâ??s

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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If you collect proper data in Google Analytics, you can tools like Tableau, MS SQL server, and R to do deeper analysis. Debugging tip: look at session distribution report, filter to users with lots of sessions and high repeat sessions, get clues from network, hostname, bounce, browser, geo-IP, resolution.

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