Tag: AWS Lofts

Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, Jacob Stultz, and Senior Platform Engineer, Jeff Pollard, of Strava, share how they rely on a robust ephemeral cache in Redis to more quickly and effectively service the majority of their reads.

Whether it’s choosing data, sources, or features to include, all are steps where bias can be introduced to your AI model. Sift CEO Jason Tan unpacks these complexities in a fireside chat.

Our panel of experts at our AWS Loft in New York discuss why culture is vital to any startup that wants to survive past its early days.

Gain insights into BARK’s wins and losses and how they were able to build a successful recurring revenue model with Co-founder Carly Strife.

Ellie Wheeler, partner at Greycroft Partners, shares best practices and tips on how to get started and funded through a VC.

Our panel of experts break down the seed-stage fundraising process and unpack the fundamentals of the term sheet.

SaaStr Founder & CEO, Jason Lemkin, Head of Sales Enablement at Revinate, Jen Burns, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nakul Mandan, and Atrium’s Head of Growth, Steven Boone, will share insights on the sales process and best practices on scaling sales teams.

Learn how Houtan Fanisalek, Chief Technology Officer of Felix Gray, an e-commerce startup, scaled their infrastructure and planned for massive traffic spikes using Amazon Aurora and Elasticache. He discusses best practices on how to scale your database with minimal downtime, find performance bottlenecks in your database driven application, and how to handle service failures gracefully. Houtan also provides real world examples of the challenges his team faced while scaling Felix Gray, and speaks to the common growing pains any tech startup will face as they scale in the cloud.

On April 13, 2019 the New York Urban League Young Professionals (NYULYP) hosted its annual STEAM Conference for over 120 middle and high school students at the AWS Loft in New York as part of its National Day of Service initiative. The NYULYP organized a full day of mentorship, hands-on learning, career discovery, and entertainment.

From unanticipated service failures to load-related performance degradations, infrastructure event readiness planning is critical for handling seasonal traffic spikes gracefully and dynamically. Without proper preparation, your best sales day could become your last. Gain insights into how Elaine Arbaugh, Senior Software Engineer and SRE tech lead, at fintech startup Affirm managed the massive influx of activity during the 2018 Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday shopping weekend by building a scale-up, fault tolerant, database system that was able to handle 5x a normal day’s scale.