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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. It means you’ve set up good tooling so that developers can attack problems quickly without a lot of grunt work.

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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. Assurance of Quality The testing stage of the software product development process is vital. As a result, financial app security solutions must have quality assurance engineers and regular testing.