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dabeeeenster on Aug 13, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: My short history of Engine Yard and my Resignation

"We just were victims of our own success and could not deploy customers fast enough to get free time to build the automated system that AppCloud is today."

This is a really hard problem IMHO. Obviously it depends on your business model, but I've found it at times an unsolvable problem...

bl4k on Aug 13, 2010 | [–]

hire contractors (or setup a team) and isolate them from the rest of the business. happens in both small and large companies all the time.

benofsky on Aug 13, 2010 | [–]

Yeah, it seems to be quite a common problem at the moment. Look at Twitter; more specifically Digg, who have suffered from this for years and are only now getting out from it.

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