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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

• The cloud isn’t for everyone

Published on High Scalability

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

CEO

• Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
• 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

• How to Deal With Unintended Consequences
• To Succeed Big, Think Small
• Advertising Revenue
• Are you building the right product?
• Do You Need Product Management?
• Video and Software Development
• Getting From Idea To Product

Engineering

• Commitment-Based SOA
• Practice, Practice, Practice
• Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
• From Technician to Engineer
• Scalability Best Practices
• Engineering or Craftsmanship
• Tuning versus Scaling
• Continuous Deployment
• Monitoring Strategies
• Scaling & Availability Anti-patterns
• Check In Early & Often
• 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

• Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
• VP of Operations
• Storage Headaches
• A Framework for Maturing SaaS Monitoring

CTO/CIO

• 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

Leadership

• Team Conflict – Part 1
• Speak in Terms of Objectives – Not Actions
• Lower Your Standards and Build a Better Team
• Complacency Kills Scalability
• Resonant or Competent?
• Check Your Ego at the Door
• Mission First, People Always
• Be A Leader!
• Seed, Feed and Weed to Succeed
• Building High Performance Teams

Uncategorized

• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Book Review
• Ethics Fail
• The 4 Hour Workweek – Stories from a Life Hack
• Airline Metrics
• Stop Doing Annual Reviews
• 4 Things I Wish I’d Learned as an Undergraduate
• Firefighting
• What Startups Can Learn from Government Mistakes
• PDLC or SDLC
• Happy New Year
• Initiatives That Kill
• Splunk
• A Lightweight Post Mortem Process
• Good and Bad Process – Netflix’s Playbook
• A Case for 360 Degree Feedback
• Perception is Reality
• Is Anyone Really Surprised?
• No Such Thing As a Software Engineer
• Independence Day
• New Look
• Twitter Posts
• The Problem With Food and Technology
• Art v. Science in Products
• Architecture and Work
• Scaling and Monitoring the Clouds
• Incidents and Problems
• Attention Detroit: Use Technology to Save Your Company!
• 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!