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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. Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.