Nishant Modak
@nishantmodak
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Building @last9io . Startups, Tea, Beatles, Long runs, Sake. Relentless.
Joined May 2007
RT @last9io: We’re here to make observability simple, efficient, and cost-effective. If you’re facing any #observability challenges, we’d…
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RT @arduino: This Republic Day, we're thrilled to make history together: introducing the first-ever Arduino UNO एक R4 Made in India! 🇮🇳 htt…
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RT @DarthChatri: One of my favourite poems is “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Often in life I come across situations which remind me of some part…
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RT @ku1deep: Come first week of Feb and I am hosting SaaSBoomi Socials in Mumbai with the SaaSBoomi team. If you are a SaaS founder this i…
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RT @ttunguz: There are two opposing forces in the world of data: an overall consolidation within the modern data stack & a massive expansio…
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Engineering Estimates: A Growth Story Junior: "2 days" Senior: "2-3 weeks, depending..." Staff: "Let me break this down first" Principal: "What if we made it smaller?" The more experience you have, the less willing you are to give exact estimates! Speed of iteration, trumps everything else
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too real
Your Deploy Frequency Tells the Truth: Daily: 'We test in prod' Weekly: 'We fear our code' Monthly: 'We fear everything' Quarterly: 'We've given up' Your rituals reveal your reality.
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OK. This is a joke. Or is it? 'Developer Math Skills': - Can design systems handling million QPS - Can't calculate that 80 hours building a tool > $29/month subscription. We value computer time more than our own time 🤦
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Customers as TDD (Test Driven Development) Today, I explained "early stage startups to an engineering founder friend in a way that finally clicked for him. Think of early customers as TDD (Test Driven Development). But for startups, it's Test Driven Discovery. Each customer is a test case: - Enterprise customer = procurement edge case - Non-tech customer = UX stress test - High-touch client = support system load test In early days, each test can fail at multiple stages: - Pitch & Positioning - Pilot, UX - Support - Retention Success? - Renewed Deal = test passing end to end - Complaints = failed assertions - Churn = regression failure The counterintuitive truth? You're not trying to pass every test case in early days. You're discovering which ones matter for your target use case and move quickly. Some tests you'll fix. Others you'll mark "won't fix." That's okay. #startups #engineering
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Incident Severity tells you who to wake up, complexity tells you who needs to stay up. I have been wondering if 'investigation surface area' can be looked at more systematically to also indicate coordination complexity #Engineering
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"Your Roadmap Is a Bedtime Story" 🙃 Everyone nods and smiles in roadmap meetings, like a fantasy novel? Nobody believes the dates. Planned for release 2 months from now? Pure fiction. What works: - Ship. Learn. Adjust. - Weekly, not monthly, not quarterly. We ship & release daily many times at @Last9 and our customers are often surprised by how fast things evolve! #Engineering That makes our roadmap non-fiction!
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RT @ku1deep: “VC is the laboratory of Capitalism” - @nishantmodak Early morning chat and he drops this. This makes perfect sense and feel…
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Brooks' Law Isn't Theory. It's Math. Communication Channels Are Quadratic: 3 people = 3 lines 14 people = 91 lines You can't beat combinatorial growth. You can only isolate the blast radius. True for teams. True for services. This is why both your standups AND your service mesh are getting slower 🙃 #Engineering
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@javilopen NYTimes introduced a website in '96. One of its headlines that day was 'Europe Better on Self-Regulation to Control the Internet' It has been going on for far too long
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