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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. And second, you have a clear metric of improvement: the number of days taken to close.”

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It’s never too late to align product-market fit metrics with your company’s values

TechCrunch

At TechCrunch’s Early Stage event a few weeks ago in Boston, David Thacker , a general partner at Greylock, advised startups to keep it simple: focus, adjust and adapt. This metric may vary by stage, but Series A and onwards is when it becomes critical for a company to have PMF. How do you get your idea to resonate in the world?

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On the journey to Series B, strategy is more important than metrics

TechCrunch

Software founders have never had so many metrics thrown at them by VCs on how to run a business. Across social media, in newsletters and at events, it’s been hard to escape charts on measuring CAC, cash burn, growth and efficiency. We’ve never believed that great businesses are built solely on metrics or KPIs.

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Monitoring consumer lag in Azure Event Hub

Xebia

Consumer lag is the most important metric to monitor when working with event streams. However, it is not available as a default metric in Azure Insights. Want to have this metric available as part of your monitoring solution? Consumer lag will be 0 most of the time, as every event is consumed immediately.

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Monitoring consumer lag in Azure Event Hub

Xebia

Why Consumer lag is the most important metric to monitor when working with event streams. However, it is not available as a default metric in Azure Insights. Want to have this metric available as part of your monitoring solution? The post Monitoring consumer lag in Azure Event Hub appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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Ask Miss O11y: To Metric or to Trace?

Honeycomb

Dear Miss O11y, I remember reading quite interesting opinions from you about usage of metrics and traces in an application. I must admit that I was quite puzzled by your stance regarding the (un)usefulness of metrics compared to traces in apps in some contexts (debugging). What are metrics? When are metrics good?

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Green Software is Event Driven and Carbon Aware, with Kubernetes and KEDA

Xebia

Instead of having a fixed number of application replicas, we should match the scale of our applications to: Current events, for example, in terms of incoming web requests or messages in a Kafka topic. This article shows how we can make our applications greener by making them event-driven and carbon-aware. How can we do better?

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