Rao: Two-year release cycles risk delivering obsolete enterprise software
Kartik Rao · a16z Podcast | Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls · Jan 2, 2019 · at 5:30
Kartik Rao, co-founder of SignalFx, discusses how fast-moving markets affect enterprise IT development strategies on the a16z Podcast.
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“Ultimately, even in the enterprise world, markets are changing very quickly, and so if you're taking two years to get something out, the markets have probably changed in those two years.”
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