Startup How to make it in the DACH region: the world’s 2nd largest market for SaaS I spent more than 6 years living and working in Switzerland and Germany, and I will share with you the particularities of the DACH startup ecosystem and explain how you can make the most of it.
security Eight essentials to make your account's security a priority Security is and will always be a two-way street: it requires effort from both the user and the platform. At Scaleway, your organization account's security remains our top priority. As a result, we
Instances How to size your instances according to your needs As a Solutions Architect, one of the questions that often comes up from our customers regarding instances, is which type and size to choose. Having an infrastructure that is not optimized is time
CTOForum 5 things to know about marketing to become a better engineering leader I would have called myself a heretic to have written such a title a decade ago—back when I thought being an awesome engineer was only about technical challenges and certainly not product
Can open source make business sense? This is the latest post in our “2022 Cloud Trends” series Open source software - i.e .software based on code that is transparently open and available to all - has been an
News What’s new in November? New control plane, CTO Forum & Observability We’ve made no secret of how important we think it is for Europe to have its own datacenters, so we’re thrilled to announce the opening of our latest datacenter in Warsaw.
Startup Cloud FinOps: how to optimize your cloud bill Should early-stage startups focus on optimizing cloud spending, or on growth? For Shomik Ghosh, partner at Boldstart Venture: “In early product or go-to-market stages, optimizing cloud spending should be the last thing on
Serverless Serverless: 1 year in, and we’re just getting started Today marks one year since Scaleway’s Serverless Functions and Containers entered General Availability. We’ve achieved a lot in the past year, and we’re only just getting started. In the serverless
The digital sector needs to step up and play its part in mitigating climate change. Here’s how. COP27 is here, and the flurry of reports and climate change news have not stopped pouring in after an abnormally long and hot summer filled with megafires and droughts in Europe, and deadly
How Serverless became the future of the cloud… without replacing Bare Metal This is the latest in a series of posts about the key cloud trends of 2022 In the not too distant future, you'll be able to write an app on your laptop, and
What's new in October? Redis, dark mode & Serverless We are regularly shipping betas, products, or features, and we don't want you to miss a piece of important information that you might need. So let's dig into what happened in October in
How to build a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Elastic Metal Thierry Dupré, System Administrator at Webedia Group, and Thomas Gatignon, Lead Product Marketing Manager at Scaleway, hosted a webinar on How to build a hybrid cloud infrastructure with Elastic Metal, our bare metal
Serverless How to collect and store data periodically with Serverless Functions Some applications need to collect and store data periodically. For instance, when you poll a resource once every hour or monitor systems. Allocating static resources over time to this kind of periodic collection
infrastructure How to optimize your infrastructure with an architecture review We recently upgraded our support plans, and starting from the Gold level, you can now request an Architecture Review from our team of Solutions Architects (SAs). The goal is to help you optimize
CI-CD 7 Best practices to set up your first CI/CD pipeline All competitive technology organizations use continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) to establish a fast and predictable software release cycle. A CI/CD pipeline uses automation to mobilize all the processes required to
Analysis: How to finance your startup through winter 2022 We spoke to experts for tips on how startups can weather the winter ahead, and insight into what to expect in the first quarters of 2023.
infrastructure Understanding SSH bastion: use cases and tips Hi! I am Canözüm and I’ve been working as a Solutions Architect at Scaleway for a year. I provide our clients with technical guidance during their migration to Scaleway, and I’ve
Redis Redis 101: Optimizing performance by leveraging cache We are particularly excited to announce we are launching Managed Database for Redis™, to make it even easier for developers to leverage Redis in the Scaleway ecosystem. We built a whole system on top of Redis to facilitate the setup of a secure cache.
An open letter to the decacorns and centaurs of the future With France’s “most exclusive startup event in Europe” taking place September 28, it’s time an open letter was written to the wider startup ecosystem. 65% of startups feel too dependent on
How startups can succeed at a conference So, you’re all booked to attend one of your first conferences! It’s an exciting moment, but it’s time to make the most of this opportunity. The pressure’s on to
2022 cloud trends Microservices are becoming the default application architecture choice – is it time to jump in? This is the latest in a series of articles detailing the 10 cloud trends set to mark 2022, based on this initial post. More and more companies are opting to build cloud-native “microservice”
How to build a CI/CD pipeline on PLAY2 When you’re working on code with your team, the same pain points always crop up. Repetitive, time-consuming testing and code merges causing messy deployments are a drag. But, there’s a trend
Why sustainable chip sourcing matters for European tech Since the second half of 2020, demand for semiconductors has exceeded supply. Cue a global shortage, which, aggravated by pandemic-induced lockdowns, has left the world reeling. The fallout? Prices for consumer electronics spiked,
Lessons learned from talking to 100s of Engineering Leaders Eiso Kant is currently founder and CEO at Athenian. His work at Athenian helps engineering leaders improve the productivity of their teams. After speaking to hundreds, if not thousands, of engineering leaders, he
How to monetize your open source project (and pay your developers) How to monetize your open source project (and pay your developers) Open source started in the mid-70s with academics and passionate engineers giving away software for free. There was no concept of a business model, and the money t
