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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Expo SF (May.
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The Next Web
AUGUST 6, 2013
Facebook does it – they push new code to their platform at least twice a day and this includes changes to their API, which has over 40,000 developers using it for building apps. Here are a few pointers: Have your developers use agile development – they will love you for it. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. And I think a bad choice, a bad library, a horrible API, lack of documentation etc. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. will make the foundation weak.
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