December 01, 2010
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Patrick Vlaskovits addresses some fallacies around customer development and describes multiple approaches on how to hack "Getting Out of The Building" such that product development decisions can be made with better, higher-quality data.
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Is your MySQL groaning under too much data? Tired of waiting hours for analytics rake tasks? Loren Siebert discusses leveraging your existing Ruby codebase by building Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs using Hive and plugging in your own Ruby mappers/reducers.…[More]
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The analysts and engineers at ModCloth.com spent the past year building business intelligence tools to measure their business. Evan Tahler, Jennifer Suit, and Kate Zimmerman describe their agile approach to BI problems and share their process and tools.…[More]
June 15, 2011
Jared Cosulich of Irrational Design recently started a new music site, SoundSeed.Me. He discusses the process as he launches a new product, getting it built, finding the first users, iterating, testing, and trying to get the right market fit.…[More]
March 23, 2011
We see the power of cheap cloud hosting, OSS, and incubators to make building a web app cheap, and now the same is happening to hardware. The means of production is becoming democratized and agile hardware startups are popping up to solve problems IRL.…[More]