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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 isnt 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
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