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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. If a release goes out and suddenly there are new errors, thats a sign that the batch was bad and needs to be reverted.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

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Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. They didn’t validate their business model before investing so much in it and under-estimated the “last mile” problem. Contrast this to Zappos. Can it work for an enterprise software company?

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

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 continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Do you have a bug database?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Massive proprietary databases? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them?

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

*All* of the factors involved in delivering software are affected by starting with baseline requirements that are constrained to what the system should do and the process artifacts desired (say 5 forms reading and writing a database store). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.