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How Vectiro built an Enterprise Product in 12 months?
As an advisor to Vectiro, I meet Sudhakar, CEO of Vectiro regularly, and every time I am amazed with the progress the team has made on the product. I was curious to understand how a team of four founders built an enterprise-grade data protection and disaster recovery platform in about 12 months. New workloads, new capabilities, new features, all delivered by the same four people. Sudhakar revealed the fifth teammate: Anthropic Claude Code. What follows is Vectiro's journey in Sudhakar's own words: how the team worked with Claude across architecture, coding, debugging, and what other small teams can learn from it. At a glance Vectiro, a four-person startup in Pune, India, built an enterprise-grade data protection and disaster recovery platform in roughly 12 months with Claude as a daily...
Navigating the complexities of System Software Product Sustenance
Many organizations have shipping products, generating ample revenue with a sizable customer base. A majority of such products have system software as the building block that is stable to a high degree and hardly needs feature enhancements. However, one topic that keeps getting discussed in the context of such products is Sustenance. Teams keep grappling with customer escalations related to operating system upgrades, newer versions of system libraries, security fixes, etc.My discussions with engineering leaders and business executives lead to below top three reasons why it has become a hard problem to solve today: Complexity: System software implementations have multiple components and dependencies. Usually, C/C++ is the programming language used for compatibility and performance. It...