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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."
My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,
By pushing the envelope, we can challenge our assumptions about consequences and get better at what we fear at the same time. I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuousdeployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. I recommend you take a look.
It seems many startups these days are under a lot of pressure to outsource their development organization to save costs. Labels: agile , continuousdeployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuousdeployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuousdeployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Youd better.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth."
And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Worst of all, your teammates are constantly wanting to have meetings.
Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots.
So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. 1 comments: flixsterwidgettest said.
Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica. we dont talk enough about how it feels.
[link] And - of course - going through [link] and reading up on the various different approaches different companies have (successfully) taken towards getting scalability at reasonably low cost. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. sadly, this blog forces you to use a google account.
Plus, with memory-resident code, its pretty easy to forget which version of the code is actually running at any given time. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Every change required a server restart.
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