Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

During the same period (1987 – 1990) and I did some work at MIT under Eric von Hippel on “user driven innovation with regard to software development&# which today would probably fall under the heading of “open source software development approaches.&# Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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. Can you make a build in one step?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. This is what the BSD license was invented for, for example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. I hear some variation of this pretty often: "I mean, sure those guys were rationalizing and kidding themselves.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Financial leverage refers to investing that is supplemented by borrowed money. One last thought.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

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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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

This is the thinking that allowed us to overcome our fear of continuous deployment at IMVU. Whats the best open source platform to design 3d avatar environments for a webapp? ( Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I certainly learned a lot from the experience.

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