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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.

  • Martin Gramling
    Martin Gramling
12 min read
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

  • Cyril Petel
    Cyril Petel
8 min read
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

  • Canözüm Eraydin
    Canözüm Eraydin
5 min read
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

  • Karim Matrah
    Karim Matrah
7 min read

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

  • James Martin
    James Martin
6 min read
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.

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
2 min read
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

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
7 min read
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

  • Simon Shillaker
    Simon Shillaker
8 min read

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

  • Tristan Nitot
    Tristan Nitot
3 min read

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

  • Thomas Gatignon
    Thomas Gatignon
  • Lucas Merdinian
    Lucas Merdinian
  • Simon Shillaker
    Simon Shillaker
5 min read

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

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
3 min read

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

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
5 min read
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

  • Thomas Tacquet
    Thomas Tacquet
4 min read
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

  • Charles-Edouard Gagnaire
    Charles-Edouard Gagnaire
5 min read
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

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
7 min read

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.

  • Klarissa Fitzpatrick
    Klarissa Fitzpatrick
6 min read
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

  • Canözüm Eraydin
    Canözüm Eraydin
3 min read
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.

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
7 min read

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

  • Yann Lechelle
    Yann Lechelle
4 min read

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

  • Klarissa Fitzpatrick
    Klarissa Fitzpatrick
6 min read
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”

  • Gaspard Plantrou
    Gaspard Plantrou
4 min read

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

  • Klarissa Fitzpatrick
    Klarissa Fitzpatrick
4 min read

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,

  • Yann-Guirec Manac'h
    Yann-Guirec Manac'h
5 min read

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

  • Klarissa Fitzpatrick
    Klarissa Fitzpatrick
6 min read

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

  • Hana Khelifa
    Hana Khelifa
5 min read
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