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Published on GigaOM

• 4 Critical Steps to Turning Around a Team
• 5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup
• Top 10 Internet Startup Scalability Killers
• Survival Is Competitive Differentiation
• 5 Things to Do for Your Career in an Economic Downturn
• The Top 5 Reasons Tech Execs Fail
• 10 of the Biggest Platform Development Mistakes
• Top 5 Reasons Business Execs Fail to Work Effectively with Product and Engineering Execs

Published on VentureBeat

• 10 things you won’t learn in school
• The cloud isn’t for everyone

Published on High Scalability

• 11 Strategies to Rock Your Startup's Scalability in 2010

Uncategorized

• Log Every Change
• Revisiting the 1:10:100 Rule
• Data Driven Decisions
• Happy New Year
• Is Anyone Really Surprised?
• Independence Day
• New Look
• Twitter Posts
• The Problem With Food and Technology
• Architecture and Work
• Scaling and Monitoring the Clouds
• Checklists
• Sounds of hard drives dying
• Venture backed startups
• Storage Headaches 2
• Where’s the bottom?
• Bugs in vendor software
• Tools of Your Profession
• The Purpose Of Customers
• How much is too much?
• Open Storage Summit Keynote

Leadership and Management

• Attitude #Fail
• Technology Governance – Lessons from 13 Bankers
• Two Important Leadership Tests
• Why Can’t I Outsource Everything?
• 4 Types of Organizational Cancer
• Devil’s Own Day
• Airline Metrics
• Stop Doing Annual Reviews
• Firefighting
• Team Conflict – Part 1
• Speak in Terms of Objectives – Not Actions
• What Startups Can Learn from Government Mistakes
• Lower Your Standards and Build a Better Team
• Resonant or Competent?
• Good and Bad Process – Netflix’s Playbook
• A Case for 360 Degree Feedback
• Hiring ‘A’ Players
• Upgrade Your Team!
• Check Your Ego at the Door
• Mission First, People Always
• Be A Leader!
• Seed, Feed and Weed to Succeed
• Building High Performance Teams

Product Management

• Product Design – Flexible is Fat and Omnipotent is Impotent
• How to Deal With Unintended Consequences
• Initiatives That Kill
• Perception is Reality
• To Succeed Big, Think Small
• Advertising Revenue
• Art v. Science in Products
• Attention Detroit: Use Technology to Save Your Company!
• Ergonomic bliss
• Are you building the right product?
• Do You Need Product Management?
• Video and Software Development
• Getting From Idea To Product

Ethics

• The Ethical Concerns of Operating in China
• Ethics Fail
• 4 Things I Wish I’d Learned as an Undergraduate
• I Need a Shower

Newsletters

• Newsletter – NoSQL
• Newsletter – Trends
• Newsletter – The Future of Relational Databases

Book Reviews

• Technology Governance – Lessons from 13 Bankers
• Book Review – The Big Short
• Rework – Book Review
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Book Review
• The 4 Hour Workweek – Stories from a Life Hack
• Complacency Kills Scalability – A Review of Kotter’s “A Sense of Urgency”
• 279 Days

Career Advice

• Sell Your Idea
• Keeping Score

Engineering

• How To Say “No”
• Moving from Packaged Software to SaaS
• Evolving Architecture And Software
• Scalability Warning Signs
• Agile Architects
• The Enterprise Service Bus
• Why We Hate Stored Procedures
• Matching Data Value and Data Storage Costs
• 5 Things Agile is NOT
• Data Access Layers
• PDLC or SDLC
• Commitment-Based SOA
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
• From Technician to Engineer
• Scalability Best Practices
• No Such Thing As a Software Engineer
• Engineering or Craftsmanship
• Tuning versus Scaling
• Continuous Deployment
• Monitoring Strategies
• Scaling & Availability Anti-patterns
• Check In Early & Often
• Fix Your Bugs
• The Future of Relational Databases
• The Purpose of QA
• To Log or Not To Log?
• Code Review
• How to Scale a Read Subsystem
• To Get Better You Must Practice
• Scalability Architect
• Risk Assessment
• Fault Isolative Architectures or “Swimlaning”
• Splitting Databases for Scale
• Splitting Applications or Services for Scale
• Fast or Right?
• SOA vs ROA
• A Case for Technology Agnostic Design (TAD)
• Branching
• What every engineer needs to know

CTO/CIO

• Outsourcing Engineering or Operations
• Intellectual Property
• Updated Recommended Reading
• Using Vendor Features to Scale
• 10 Rules for Vendor Negotiations
• The D-I-D Approach to Scalability
• Scalability Summit
• How Technical Should The CTO Be?
• UC Berkeley’s take on cloud computing
• New Year’s Tech Resolutions
• Foster Creativity
• Team Size
• Recommended Reading
• Incenting Success in Technology Organizations
• Joint Application Design & Architecture Review Board
• Business Acumen and the CIO/CTO
• Top 20 Mistakes in Technology
• The Bug is in the Code!
• What to do in the first 30 days!
• Build v. Buy
• Path to CTO/CIO

CEO

• Please Be Quiet
• Fail Early
• Outsourcing Engineering or Operations
• Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
• Monetization is king
• Strong Companies Still Attracting Funding
• There Is No Substitute for Profitability
• Principles of War as Applied to Business Leadership – Part 2
• Principles of War as Applied to Business Leadership – Part 1
• Startups and the Manic-Depressive CEO
• Ethics: How Good Companies Go Bad
• Five Essential Attributes of Great Technology Company CEOs
• Management 101
• How Technical Does The CEO Need To Be?

Operations

• Morning Operations Meeting
• Delayed Replication
• Probability
• P-I-C Process for Issue Prioritization
• Log Every Change
• Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
• VP of Operations
• Splunk
• A Lightweight Post Mortem Process
• Incidents and Problems
• After Action Review
• Storage Headaches
• A Framework for Maturing SaaS Monitoring

Security

• Sensible Security
• The Financial Drivers of Security
• Top 4 Failures in Corporate Information Security

Art of Scalability

• Book Number 2: Scalability Rules
• How Do You Use The Art of Scalability?
• The Art of Scalability Radio Interview
• Book Reviews & Resources
• Now In Paperback – The Art of Scalability!
• An Offer You Can’t Refuse
• The Art of Scalability Update
• The Art of Scalability Update
• Another Art of Scalability Update!
• New Additions to the Art of Scalability
• The Art of Scalability Update
• The Art of Scalability
• Coming soon to a book store near you!

Device Reviews

• iPad or Kindle?
• iPad Review