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As community leaders grapple with the fallout from cancelled events worldwide, tons of folks have shared in-depth guides and tutorials for ways to move events online. Orbit has pulled together a few shorter reads—call them hot takes and cool tools—that bring a unique perspective to the conversation and hopefully inspire some creativity and energy for your own communities.
Remote meetings, teaching and workshops require a bit of planning. Improvising is hard when that many people connect digitally, so a bit of overpreparation is recommended. Read through settings and make necessary adjustments and do a practice run.
The pay-as-you-go pricing structure makes it just as easy to rack up enormous bills. It’s easy for companies to ‘set and forget’ their AWS infrastructure until it grows out of control. Fortunately, there are simple tools and strategies that you can put in place to manage your costs.
If we look at two of the early SaaS companies to go public, Concur (1998) and Salesforce (2004), markets had no idea what to do with them. There weren’t any tried-and-true methods for measuring the health of a business with revenue that cost quite a bit of capital to acquire, and then paid itself back over long stretches of time with annual (or monthly) contracts.
The rise of the cloud over the past decade has forced software developers and DevOps engineers to completely rearchitect the modern web application, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. That’s a really painful proposition when done manually, which is where HashiCorp comes in to play.
With over 14 years of remote work experience himself, Darren Murph now owns the process for the world’s largest all-remote organization as Head of Remote for GitLab. Last week Darren joined Heavybit for an online group session on how to foster remote fluency and build better distributed teams.
Getting a bit RESTless in your apartment? To help fight the boredom, ReadMe is launching WAPI—an ephemeral live radio station that will air for only 24 hours. Tune in to talk about building developer experiences people love. They'll have a live chat, dozens of awesome guests joining and a few surprises. March 26, 11 a.m. PST – March 27, 11 a.m. PST.
