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Livefyre operates its entire platform with only 25 engineers including DevOps

Ramana Rao · Ramana Rao, Livefyre // Real-Time Social Engagement (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Oct 21, 2015 · at 13:34

Ramana Rao, CTO of Livefyre, explains how Livefyre maintains high architectural scale with a lean engineering team at Data Driven NYC in October 2015.

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“We, by the way, only have, ah, 25 engineers, and that includes DevOps.”

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