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Published on GigaOM
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
The cloud isnt for everyone
CEO
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?
Product Management
Are you building the right product?
Do You Need Product Management?
Video and Software Development
Getting From Idea To Product
Engineering
Tuning versus Scaling
Continuous Deployment
Monitoring Strategies
Interviewing Engineers Continued – Part III (The Cultural Interview)
Interviewing Engineers Continued – Part II (The Technical Interview)
Interviewing Engineers Continued – Part I (The Recruiting Process)
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
How to interview engineers
What every engineer needs to know
Operations
Storage Headaches
A Framework for Maturing SaaS Monitoring
CTO/CIO
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
Leadership
Check Your Ego at the Door
Mission First, People Always
Be A Leader!
Seed, Feed and Weed to Succeed
Building High Performance Teams
Uncategorized
New Look
Twitter Posts
The Art of Scalability Update
Advertising Revenue
The Problem With Food and Technology
Art v. Science in Products
Architecture and Work
Scaling and Monitoring the Clouds
Incidents and Problems
Scaling & Availability Anti-patterns
The Art of Scalability
Attention Detroit: Use Technology to Save Your Company!
Check In Early & Often
279 Days
Fix Your Bugs
sell your idea
The Future of Relational Databases
Hiring ‘A’ Players
After Action Review
Puzzle Questions in Interviews
Upgrade Your Team!
Monetization is king
Keeping Score
I Need a Shower
Checklists
Sounds of hard drives dying
Venture backed startups
Storage Headaches 2
Where’s the bottom?
Strong Companies Still Attracting Funding
Bugs in vendor software
Tools of Your Profession
There Is No Substitute for Profitability
The Purpose Of Customers
Ergonomic bliss
How much is too much?
Open Storage Summit Keynote
Coming soon to a book store near you!