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Tech Talks
Published on InformIT
- Reduce the Equation
- Four Rules for Surviving an Amazon EC2 Outage
- The Impact of People and Leadership on Scalability
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
Published on High Scalability
Art of Scalability
Book Reviews
- Why We Write
- Enterprise Cloud Computing – Book Review
- Book Review: The Lords of Strategy
- Book Review – Web Operations
- 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
- Thanks for Everything Mr. Jobs
- Information Hunter-Gatherers
- Scalability as a Discipline
- Evolution of Roles in a Startup
- Sell Your Idea
- Keeping Score
CEO
- More Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs
- Opinions Don’t Matter
- The Agile Executive
- Availability as a Feature
- Mergers and Acquisitions Revisited
- “Internal Customer”: The “C” Word of SaaS Companies
- Successful Acquisitions
- Chief Innovation Officer – Organization #Fail
- Please Be Quiet
- Fail Early
- Outsourcing Engineering or Operations
- Crisis Management – Normal Accident Theory and High Reliability Theory
- Monetization is king
- Venture backed startups
- Strong Companies Still Attracting Funding
- There Is No Substitute for Profitability
- The Purpose Of Customers
- 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?
CTO/CIO
- Active-Passive and Spare Tires
- Alternative Solutions to Old Problems
- Cascading Failures
- Federated Cloud
- Availability as a Feature
- The Future of IaaS and PaaS
- Why A Technology Leader Should Code
- Defining Pods, Shards and Swim Lanes
- RAC Rant
- 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?
- The Problem With Food and Technology
- 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
Engineering
- Engineering Efficiency
- How to Choose a Development Methodology
- The Agile Executive
- Technical Debt
- Lazy Summertime
- Multi-paradigm Data Storage Architectures
- Rules for Surviving an Amazon Outage
- Don’t Interrupt the Doers
- Availability as a Feature
- What Is That Delay Costing?
- Scalability at the Cost of Availability
- Google’s Megastore
- How to Setup a Failover Server on EC2
- Setting Up CloudFront with an Origin Server
- DevOps
- Designing for Rollback
- Slaying Firesheep
- 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
- Revisiting the 1:10:100 Rule
- 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
- Architecture and Work
- Scaling & Availability Anti-patterns
- Check In Early & Often
- Fix Your Bugs
- The Future of Relational Databases
- Bugs in vendor software
- Tools of Your Profession
- 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
Ethics
- The Ethical Concerns of Operating in China
- Ethics Fail
- 4 Things I Wish I’d Learned as an Undergraduate
- I Need a Shower
Interviews
- Outbrain’s CTO on Scalability
- Puzzle Questions in Interviews
- Interviewing Engineers Continued – Part III (The Cultural Interview)
- Interviewing Engineers Continued – Part II (The Technical Interview)
- Interviewing Engineers Continued – Part I (The Recruiting Process)
- How to interview engineers
Leadership and Management
- More Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs
- How to Evaluate Employees
- An Open Mindset
- Inspiration vs Motivation
- The Agile Executive
- The Agile Organization Solution
- The Agile Organization
- Corporate Mouth Diarrhea
- 11 Leadership Principles – Part II
- 11 Leadership Principles – Part I
- Asking For Help
- “Internal Customer”: The “C” Word of SaaS Companies
- 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
Newsletters
- Newsletter – Trends
- Newsletter – Spring 2011
- Newsletter – Firesheep
- Newsletter – NoSQL
- Newsletter – Trends
- Newsletter – The Future of Relational Databases
Operations
- Risk Mitigation
- Battle Captains and Outage Managers
- DevOps
- How To Restore Service in Less Than 5 Minutes
- 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
- Scaling and Monitoring the Clouds
- Incidents and Problems
- After Action Review
- Checklists
- Sounds of hard drives dying
- Storage Headaches 2
- Storage Headaches
- A Framework for Maturing SaaS Monitoring
Product Management
- Your Idea Doesn’t Matter
- The Agile Organization Solution
- The Agile Organization
- Simultaneous Discovery
- How Customers Use Your Technology
- Data Driven Decisions
- 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
Security
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