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CEO Guide to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

What is Site Reliability Engineering? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a set of principles and practices that applies application development approaches to infrastructure…

Heather Abbott

· 9 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 4: Foundational Technical Concepts for CEOs

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their technical teams by improving their leadership skills. There are things that will make a difference when leading a technical team, either positive or negative. In this four-part series I will cover those things that will help CEOs better lead the technical function in their company and avoid those things that undermine the effectiveness of their leadership.

Roger Andelin

· 10 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 3: Creating Engineering Transparency

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their technical teams by improving their leadership skills. There are things that will make a difference when leading a technical team, either positive or negative. In this four-part series I will cover those things that will help CEOs better lead the technical function in their company and avoid those things that undermine the effectiveness of their leadership.

Roger Andelin

· 8 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 2: Lead with OKRs, not features and dates!

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEO’s it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their technical teams by improving their leadership skills. There are things that will make a difference when leading technical folks, either positive or negative. This four-part series covers those things that will help CEOs better lead their technical team and avoid those things that undermine the effectiveness of their leadership.

Roger Andelin

· 6 min read

A CEO’s Guide to Leading Technical Teams - Part 1: Casting A Spell

Leading the technology function can be challenging for many CEO’s. Yet, for other CEOs it comes more naturally. Every CEO can learn how to become an effective leader of their technical teams by improving their leadership skills. There are things that will make a difference when leading technical folks, either positive or negative. This four-part series will cover those things that will help you lead the technical function in your company and avoid those things that undermine the effectiveness of your leadership.

Roger Andelin

· 6 min read

To ORM or Not to ORM: Do we keep it or replace it?

Many companies use object relational mapping to generate SQL to access a database. While this initially has good benefits for a start-up, there is a point where the ORM will imped scale and should be removed.

Bill Armelin

· 4 min read

A Basic Guide to Marketing Metrics for CTOs: What They Are and Why You Need Them

A Basic Guide to Marketing Metrics for CTOs: What They Are and Why You Need Them

Victoria Wisot

· 8 min read

CEO Guide to DevOps

What is DevOps? DevOps is a cultural philosophy and set of practices that breaks down functional silos between software Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops). Historically these…

Heather Abbott

· 7 min read

Failing to Design for Rollback Is Designing for Failure

Protect your companies investment by ensuring any software release has the ability to be rolled back. Not preparing for rollback can take market share, customer confidence, and revenue if there is an issue.

Victoria Wisot

· 5 min read

Single Points Of Failure: Never Trust and Always Avoid

“There are an estimated 12 million to 24 million ecommerce websites in the world. Nearly 60% of American consumers prefer to shop online. U.S. consumers spend, on average, more…

StephRene Forbes

· 4 min read

The Top 20 Mistakes in Technology

In the fast growth environment of the tech industry, there are mistakes repeatedly made that we find during AKF technical due diligence reviews of young startups, medium-sized fast-growing business, and well-established mature organizations.

Pete Ferguson

· 13 min read

The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture

Startups SaaS companies can easily link their business strategy to their SaaS or eCommerce architecture. However, as companies grow beyond a dozen employees and departments start growing in headcount, there is seldom one person that understands how to tie the architecture back to the ever-evolving market. Drawings and mapping are needed where words are insufficient.

Phillip Seawright

· 4 min read

Guide to Optimizing Your Relational Data Model (Scalability Rule #31)

The base of this discussion is about building and maintaining a healthy data model. If executed improperly you may find yourself in a costly situation when demand out grows your…

Lauren Steel

· 10 min read

Why Is My Development Team So Slow?

Causes of slowing velocity in development teams over time

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read
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