Categorie: New Technology

SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology

SWARMing: Scaling Without A Religious Methodology

The most successful transformations I have experienced—the ones where you walk into the office and there is a tangible difference in the energy and interactions between people, where the commercial and management stakeholders are as excited and invested as the technology stakeholders, where everyone agrees on the metrics that matter and those metrics are trending …

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Beat Generosity Burnout

Beat Generosity Burnout

Selflessness at work leads to exhaustion — and often hurts the very people you want to help. Here’s how to share your time and expertise more effectively. Beat Generosity Burnout at Harvard Business Review.

Containers are not VMs: Building Healthier Containers

Containers are not VMs: Building Healthier Containers

A great read on building and utilising containers. Topics that are discussed: How containers, as we know them, came to exist Major differences between containers and virtual machines Examples of how to build minimal containers Demystifying the scratch container Examples of how to debug running containers using other containers Benefits of minimal containers Tools that …

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What banks can learn from Amazon.

What banks can learn from Amazon.

In the last year alone, Citi, BBVA, Capital One and other major banks have opened their APIs to third party developers to innovate better and faster To truly be customer-first and prioritize the customer experience above all, banks should look to platforms as business models, not tech constructs What banks can learn from Amazon by …

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Continuous Deployment with Containers

Continuous Deployment with Containers

The open source release of Docker in March 2013 triggered a major shift in the way in which the software development industry is aspiring to package and deploy modern applications. The creation of many competing, complimentary and supporting container technologies has followed in the wake of Docker, and this has lead to much hype, and …

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Google’s view on team collaboration

Google’s view on team collaboration

We do a lot of collaborating these days. But despite the number of open offices, designated “thinking” areas, and our managerial focus on small teams, we still haven’t mastered collaborative work. In fact, we’re really bad at it. A very nice article on Google’s view on team collaboration based upon data analysis. You can read …

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