List of 650+ well-funded startups that don't suck (remote, US, EU)

Finding well-funded, growing startups with strong engineering/product cultures is really hard. Created www.startups.gallery to make finding them easier. And no, this is not another spreadsheet or pay-to-play directory. It's just a thoughtful collection of today's most interesting projects, curated by humans. And yes, I know that startups aren't for everyone, but these are hopefully the most promising ones. Open to all and any feedback!



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Confused and scared please help!!

Hi guys
I am an AWS Architect with pretty good experience. I recently switched companies. I had interviewed for an Architect role. I got assigned to a project and it's AWS Devops. I got the initial KT and feel like a fish out of water. I am scared if I can cope up and do well. Please help me I am literally going thru mental breakdown....
I don't know if I should ask for another project or what?!

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How would you architect an an analytics webapp?

I architecting an app that will have terabytes of ecommerce product data (products, titles, review) that is being scraped every 15 minutes and stored into S3 as JSON. The clients in this case will be a web app (mobile app in the future) that shows trends over time (such as price trends), number of reviews, etc. Users will be able to select date ranges and other ways to filter and aggregate the data. Frontend is written in React, backend and pipelines are written in Python.

I am torn between the following:

1. just simply doing ETL from S3 into TimescaleDB, which the apps will query.
2. doing ETL from S3 into Clickhouse for analytics, and a separate Postgres instance for relational queries (users accounts)
3. Implementing a lakehouse architecture by using Apache Iceberg on top of S3 and seeing if the app can use a Python Trino client to query. Lakehouse architectures seem more efficient than traditional data warehouse architectures - I'm just unsure of the performance within applications.

How would you build this?

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I ask ChatGPT about AI replacing DevOps engineers every quarter and this time it finally gave me an answer

Question:

>How long does it take till AI replace the majority of devops and sre engineers. Give me a number not the stuff like AI won't replace bla bla bla

Answer:

A realistic estimate is **5 to 10 years** for AI to replace the **majority (over 50%)** of DevOps and SRE engineers.

* **1-3 years**: AI will significantly **augment** DevOps/SRE roles but not fully replace them. Expect automation of routine tasks (CI/CD, monitoring, incident response).
* **3-5 years**: AI will handle **most** of the operational workload, reducing team sizes. Companies will rely on AI-driven platforms for reliability engineering.
* **5-10 years**: AI will likely **replace** more than **50% of DevOps/SRE engineers**, keeping only a small number of experts for oversight and edge cases.



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How Do You Track Developer Environment Costs?

Hiiii, so I'm doing some research on how companies approach developer budget costs, specifically around environments. Sorry, feel free to brain dump, just working to understand how others might do it differently than me.

For those of you managing a dev team and balancing environment costs—do you track expenses per developer or per environment? Do you assess costs on a monthly or yearly basis? And do you try to maintain a certain ratio between staging and production costs?

For example, at my company (on the small side) we track staging vs. production costs monthly but don’t break it down per developer. I’m curious if larger companies handle this differently—or if other small companies do things another way.

Hit me with your thoughts :)



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Does anyone have a AWS CDK example of a ALB + ECS Fargate + CodePipeline blue/green setup?

I am really struggling to find a holistic example of this in documentation or elsewhere. I'm CONSTANTLY running into a chicken or the egg scenario between ECS and CodePipeline. In click-ops I can get it working almost instantly but its proving to be a serious pain for me in my AWS CDK IaC project. Feel like I've tried a million combos but nothing has worked E2E yet.

Note: I'm talking about a full ECS Fargate + CodePipeline (+ source, build, deploy) setup btw - where we have the task defs/appspec in the source repository, then want to fetch and use them as well as ECR image during each pipeline execution.


I know this is from a knowledge gap on my end, any help is super appreciated.

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Redshift Disk Space Maxed Out, Crashed Processes – Unexpected Storage Lock?

Our Amazon Redshift cluster’s disk utilization suddenly hit 100%, taking down key processes. No obvious culprits—no excessive logs, no runaway queries, nothing abnormal in monitoring.

After some troubleshooting, we ran a VACUUM, which immediately freed up space. It seems like something locked unused storage and wasn’t releasing it—possibly a storage system glitch or an unexpected background process.

Still unclear on the root cause.

Screenshot here.

Has anyone else run into this with Redshift? Any insights? Thank u!


ps. not seeing anything on X(twitter) , and the aws status page does not indicate any issues .

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Can anybody let me know where is the entire CI/CD Pipeline Implementation tutorial in KodeKloud? I am unable to find specifically for CI CD Pipeline.

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Is there a way to prevent you from committing into master branch in your local?

Is there a way to prevent you from committing into master branch in your local? I use husky, and I am wondering if there's a way to prevent me from committing into master branch locally, because sometimes I forget I am on master and I commit before creating a new feature branch.

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Is it even practical to switch from IT operations to SWE (devops or Cloud) role at 36

As the title says I am 36 and in IT operations where I am working in same project for last 10 years. I feel I am at dead end and have nowhere to go. Not doing any technical stuff other than restarting servers, some Linux commands ,updating bash scripts, setup splunk and new relic monitoring. Late last year I have decided to switch to devops or cloud role and completed Google IT automation with python specialization on course era and also took aws solutions architect certification.Started doing leetcode this January but I am not sure what kind of positions I can apply as I am not fresher or don't have experience they expect for a devops or cloud engineer. I can't start fresh as I have family responsibilities and need to earn at least what I am earning now(140k+USD) .I am kind of lost on how to proceed ... And rethinking if it's even practical for me to switch at this age? Posting here for any guidance on how to prepare for the switch specially what kind of projects I can do to show some experience and explain in interviews ?(Any course or websites or git links)I am ready to spend whole year preparing at least 10 hrs a week .

Edit: Internal move is not an option as I am a subcontractor at a federal project

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Do you have a dedicated engineer (s) who's job is looking at metrics, monitors and alerts?

I understand this should be part of each engineering teams job or the SRE teams job. But the engineers are too busy to improve or maintain monitoring or alerts.

Is there a role in companies who's sole job in looking at dashboards, adding monitors and alert workflows, etc.?

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Challenges with Real-time Inference at Scale

Hello! We’re implementing an AI chatbot that supports real-time customer interactions, but the inference time of our LLM becomes a bottleneck under heavy user traffic. Even with GPU-backed infrastructure, the scaling costs are climbing quickly. Has anyone optimized LLMs for high-throughput applications or found any company provides platforms/services that handle this efficiently? Would love to hear about approaches to reduce latency without sacrificing quality.

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Is it possible to change to dev role after devops?

Hi members. I am a 2022 grad. I got into devops as I was not getting calls for dev role and I had done an internship with a fintech as SRE. So I applied for a devops associate role. Fortunately cleared all rounds and got selected.

Even to this day, I get assigned work that is related to depooyments and deployment scripts etc and some tasks related to kubernetes. I also work on some docker related parts where we have to create docker images for some jenkins nodes that we run.

We use AWS and GCP here. But I get no task assigned for those. I have talked with my manager he says to have certification or atleast complete courses so that I can assign those tasks to you. I am trying to follow courses but not very consistent.

As to why I am not that consistent is because honestly I think I don't enjoy devops anymore or atleast the devops tasks that I am getting assigned here. Most of the distaste comes when I see that developers having the same experience as me get paid higher as high as 66% more than me. Before joining devops I was a CS grad and I had done a lot of coding and built applications etc. So I have knowledge atleast.

So I want to change to a dev role. Its not easy to get hired as a fresher in my country because most of the fresher hiring goes through on campus placements. Unfortunately I also got placed in a company as dev from my college but that company didn't had much work for me. I was not assigned to any projects for 8 months. I still hate that company. And that is the reason why I wanted to change. Change to a different company as a developer was not possible as I had no experience. And started applying randomly to SRE and devops roles also. And that is how I landed in my current company as devops engineer.

So current situation is that I have 2 yrs of experience but its devops and I want to change to a dev role. I have done some personal projects relevant for dev roles like web applications,REST apis, android apps.

Can I shift to a dev role given my current situation or continue as devops? The recruiters look for "relevant" experience. Can I fake experience in my resume. Like can I tell them that I have 2 yrs of experience in my currently company as a dev? Can I list the tasks and responsibilities of devs in my current company in my resume to fake. Will they find out if I clear interviews?

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Do you use Grafana On Call?

My team (4 people) wants Grafana On Call setup instead of the traditional Alert, Contact point, notification policies.
We use Grafana Open Source.

Their reasoning is a bit loose with why we should do this. It seems like it's a case of Grafana On Call just being a more modern, versatile tool. With their argument being that it can send us SMS messages.
Although, I've made the case that we can do more advanced alerting in Grafana or using Prometheus Alert Manager, they're insistent that we use Grafana On Call.
We do not work in shift patterns. Just regular 9 to 5.

I've been trying to set it up, but have just found it to be a bit of a faff. I've had to setup a Grafana Cloud account, as that seems necessary to allow certain features. Which means we've now got another location which our Grafana server pulls in information such as user details.
I've had to spin up several containers for Grafana On Call and it's redis server.
There's networking which has needed setting up around that.

Certain things I've had to troubleshoot and just found no mention of it within the documents, but random hints on Stack Overflow, etc.
I'm just wondering what everyone's opinion is on the service? Am I just unnecessarily whining and make things harder for myself?

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Drop in replacement for a mess of jenkins standalones

New job, started a few weeks ago and inherited a __________ _______ _____ ________ (lots of bad language) of a jenkins CI with a few tools that the previous guy decided on; all of them apart of the slaves are on vmware vms. The CI flow on a slave looks like this:

On a machine with a threadripper and nvidia Axxxx > docker image with a bunch of tools on it > private github repo > landing repo > submodules > sub-submodules ... > foreach submodule making sure that HEAD is at $branch > cmake > make > tarball > sonatype nexus.

Even if everything was working well I would dump it as soon as I can, but now the vm where the jenkins server runs is acting up, very old plugins that keep crash-looping, one of then is the ldap one and so I can't even connect to fix then, and the network layer on that vm is completely stuffed. I used jenkins years ago and I wouldn't consider myself an expert on it and its plugins.

I have access to the vm itself and I can see the job xmls, and I was thinking that for now, since there is a lot of urgency, I try to move the jobs as is to a new instance, re-do the views, re-create the credentials and so forth... and then I was wondering if there is a drop in replacement which is not me recreating the entire process in bash (which was my 1st idea).

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Developers are working at 2am to release to production. How can we help them?

In the start-up I currently work at, most production releases degrade our site performance in some way. So the developers have taken to releasing in the early hours while our web traffic is at its lowest and less users are impacted. Obviously this leads to very unhappy developers, more stress, more mistakes and it's ultimately a problem for the company growth, because we're not delivering features effectively. I really want to help stop this before it becomes normalised.

I don't know why exactly most changes are impacting the performance so much. I do know that releases happen in big-bangs. There's no feature flagging or incremental releases here. We don't deploy with GitOps, it's all push-based. On the upside our stack is pretty modern (AWS/EKS), not that complicated and we don't depend on much legacy. Our devs are also pretty good at owning their services so I think there's space to make things better.

I have a whole bunch of terms that I think could help. Namely, trunk-based development, feature flagging, canary deployments, blue-green deployments, shift-left, blah blah blah. I know what most of these things are but I've never really implemented them and I'm not clear on their relation to each other. So I'm curious to hear specifics on how you've addressed problems like this. Thanks!

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Fast-AWS: AWS Tutorial, Hands-on LABs, Usage Scenarios for Different Use-cases

I want to share the AWS tutorial, cheat sheet, and usage scenarios that I created as a notebook for myself. This repo covers **AWS Hands-on Labs, sample architectures** for different AWS services with **clean demo/printscreens**.

**Tutorial Link:** [**https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS**](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS)

# Why was this repo created?

* It **shows/maps AWS services in short** with reference AWS developer documentation.
* It shows **AWS Hands-on LABs with clean demos**. It focuses **only AWS services**.
* It contributes to **AWS open source community**.
* Hands-on lab will be **added in time** for different AWS Services and more samples (Bedrock, Sagemaker, ECS, Lambda, Batch, etc.)

# Quick Look (How-To): AWS Hands-on Labs

These hands-on labs focus on how to create and use AWS components:

* [HANDS-ON-01: Provisioning EC2s on VPC, Creating Key-Pair, Connecting EC2](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-001-EC2-VPC-Connect.md)
* [HANDS-ON-02: Provisioning Lambda, API Gateway and Reaching HTML Page in Python Code From Browser](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-002-Lambda-API-Gateway-Python.md)
* [HANDS-ON-03: EBS and EFS Configuration with EC2s](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-003-EC2-EBS-EFS.md)
* [HANDS-ON-04: Provisioning ECR, Pushing Image to ECR, Provisioning ECS, VPC, ELB, ECS Tasks, Service on Fargate Cluster](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-004-ECR-ECS-ELB-VPC-ECS-Service.md)
* [HANDS-ON-05: Provisioning ECR, Lambda and API Gateway to run Flask App Container on Lambda](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-005-Lambda-Container-ApiGateway-FlaskApp.md)
* [HANDS-ON-06: Provisioning EKS with Managed Nodes using Blueprint and Modules](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-006-EKS-ManagedNodes-Blueprint.md)
* [HANDS-ON-07: Provisioning CodeCommit, CodePipeline and Triggering CodeBuild and CodeDeploy Container in Lambda](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-007-CodeCommit-Pipeline-Build-Deploy-Lambda.md)
* [HANDS-ON-08: Provisioning S3, CloudFront to serve Static Web Site](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-008-S3-CloudFront-Static-WebSite.md)
* [HANDS-ON-09: Provisioned Gitlab Runner on EC2, connection to Gitlab Server using Docker on-premise](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-009-GitlabServer-on-Premise-GitlabRunner-on-EC2.md)
* [HANDS-ON-10: Implementing MLOps Pipeline using GitHub, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Sagemaker Endpoint](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS/blob/main/HANDS-ON-010-MLOps-SageMaker-GitHub-Codepipeline-CodeBuild-CodeDeploy.md)

# Table of Contents

* [Motivation](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#motivation)
* [Common AWS Services In-Short](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#servicesshort)
* [1. Compute Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#compute)
* [2. Container Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#container)
* [3. Storage Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#storage)
* [4. Database Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#database)
* [5. Data Analytics Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#dataanalytics)
* [6. Integration Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#integration)
* [7. Cloud Financial Management Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#cloudfinancial)
* [8. Management & Governance Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#managementgovernance)
* [9. Security, Identity, & Compliance Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#securityidentity)
* [10. Networking Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#networking)
* [11. Migration Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#migration)
* [12. Internet of Things Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#internetofthings)
* [13. Artificial Intelligence

Services](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#artificialintelligence)
* [AWS Hands-on Labs](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#handsonlabs)
* [HANDS-ON-01: Provisioning EC2s on VPC, Creating Key-Pair, Connecting EC2](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#ec2_vpc_key_pair)
* [HANDS-ON-02: Provisioning Lambda, API Gateway and Reaching HTML Page in Python Code From Browser](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#lambda_apigateway_python)
* [HANDS-ON-03: EBS and EFS Configuration with EC2s](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#ebs_efs_ec2)
* [HANDS-ON-04: Provisioning ECR, Pushing Image to ECR, Provisioning ECS, VPC, ELB, ECS Tasks, Service on Fargate Cluster](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#ecr_ecs_elb_vpc_ecs_service_fargate)
* [HANDS-ON-05: Provisioning ECR, Lambda and API Gateway to run Flask App Container on Lambda](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#ecr_lambda_apigateway_container)
* [HANDS-ON-06: Provisioning EKS with Managed Nodes using Blueprint and Modules](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#eks_managednodes_blueprint)
* [HANDS-ON-07: Provisioning CodeCommit, CodePipeline and Triggering CodeBuild and CodeDeploy Container in Lambda](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#ci_cd)
* [HANDS-ON-08: Provisioning S3, CloudFront to serve Static Web Site](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#s3_cloudfront)
* [HANDS-ON-09: Provisioned Gitlab Runner on EC2, connection to Gitlab Server using Docker on-premise](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#gitlabrunner)
* [HANDS-ON-10: Implementing MLOps Pipeline using GitHub, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Sagemaker Endpoint](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#sagemaker)
* [References](https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-AWS#references)

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Offering a Full-Stack Design & Development Package for Businesses & Founders

If you’re a business owner, startup founder, or entrepreneur looking to establish or revamp your digital presence, I’m currently offering a comprehensive design and development package for $5k.

What’s included:

• Web design and development for any kind of website (excluding e-commerce and Shopify)
• SaaS MVP product development
• UX/UI design
• Logo and brand identity design

With 8 years of experience in design and development, I’ve worked across various industries, delivering high-quality digital products. My project delivery timeline ranges from 2 to 4 weeks, depending on the complexity. Here are some of the key projects I’ve built:

1. Shortlet Booking Platform (Similar to Airbnb, Focused on Nigeria)
A web app that helps users find and book shortlets in Nigeria, starting with Benin City. It features exclusive discounts, QR code-based payment proof, and an affiliate-based revenue model.

2. Location Navigator Web App
A Next.js-powered platform that recommends fun and chill places based on Michelin-style ratings. Admins personally visit and review locations based on factors like vibe, hospitality, service, and pricing, then upload images and ratings for users to explore.

3. FileGate (Productivity Software)
A SaaS productivity tool designed to streamline file management and collaboration. Built to enhance workflow efficiency, FileGate provides an intuitive way to store, share, and organize files seamlessly.

4. Instagram Automation Tool
A Python and Flask-powered automation tool for Instagram growth. It allows users to configure automated likes, follows, and (soon) comments using the instagrapi library.

5. The Perfume Shop
A fragrance and perfume business offering high-quality perfumes and diffusers. I handle branding, design, and the online presence to ensure a premium shopping experience.

6. Solana Memecoin Trading
Actively involved in Web3, I’ve worked on trading Solana-based memecoins and exploring strategies for on-chain growth.

If you need a high-quality website, a polished SaaS MVP, or a complete brand identity, this package delivers everything you need at a competitive price.

DM me if you’re interested or want to see more of my work.

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I Quit My Job to Build TeachFlow – Looking for YouTubers Who Believe in This Dream

Hey everyone,

This is a bit personal, but I wanted to share my journey. I recently quit my job to go all in on TeachFlow, a platform I truly believe in. It's built for developers who want to share their knowledge, create coding courses, and actually get paid for their work, kind of like Patreon, but designed specifically for dev content.

I've poured everything into this. Countless late nights, but I know this can make a difference. Imagine a world where courses seamlessly integrated with VS Code and create a fun and interactive tutorial.

Now, I need help. If you’re a YouTuber or content creator in tech, I’d love to connect. Whether it’s feedback, a collab, or just a chat about the idea, your insights could mean the world to me.

If this resonates with you, check it out here: https://teachflow.app.

And also this is the behind the scene of how you can create a page that interact whit vscode:

https://youtu.be/oKxfpUfFVeU

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Would you use something like this?

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GitHub "infrastructure" via Terraform and GitHub Actions

Quick background: I'm part of a platform engineering team that currently tries to set up GitHub as primary development platform for the entire company.

We are heavily using Terraform for other platforms already and considering using the same tool to configure our GitHub enterprise (and more specifically the organization-level settings and rulesets) via IaC.

Now to the actual question: Are any of you heavy user of the terraform provider and, if so, how are you rolling out the infrastructure code?


We'd love using GitHub Actions for deployment (we are already using it with other providers and OIDC where possible) but providing access from GitHub "within" GitHub is a bit of a mess. PATs or personal gh CLI logins are out for obvious reasons, GH App is always pointed to as the best practice but "exposing" the private key within the flow directly sounds horrendous, security-wise.

My current approach would be this: We provide dedicated GH app hosted on our end with an endpoint that the workflow authenticates with and that returns an installation access token to the workflow. This token is then used for the

Does someone have a setup similar to this? Or a completely alternative approach? At this point, I'm wondering if it's even worth having a workflow or if the GH App can't do the heavy lifting itself. In general, I'm quite frustrated that the official documentation states that the private key of a GitHub App app should be stored securely and only be used for signing but at the same time all of the official GH SDKs/toolkits (e.g. octokit too) require the raw file for authentication.

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