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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

version of the product, but the toy manufacturer we licensed the toy to, wasn't interested in a new version, as the original version continues to sell well to this day. Open source projects like Arduino and SuperCollider make iterative hardware development cheaper and faster than ever. We could have included the feature in a 1.1

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

At this point, we have our own open-sourced click tracking "lil brother," an internal data visualization tool built on Rickshaw, as well as an A/B testing platform called Absinthe. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

YoungUpstarts

There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Open source solutions will be free or inexpensive but may take more time on the front end to configure and customize. Time, as they say, is money. Kubernetes.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

The engineering philosophy behind it makes total sense – move fast, build quickly, automate testing, validate your decisions through data, leverage open source when you can, build MVPs and get as close to continuous deployment as you can. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. For our metrics we mainly use Graphite , the graphing and analysis system open-sourced last year by Orbitz. Theres a drop-in Rails plugin but this service could be used with any language.

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Announcing our investment in Dataloop

The Equity Kicker

From a market perspective we liked the fact that companies everywhere are building their own custom cloud monitoring solutions using open source software – just like David and his team did at Alfresco, and that as cloud penetration increases demand for cloud monitoring solutions is only going to grow.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.