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 …
Challenging problems often demand that we push beyond familiar options and explore new territory in order to solve them. But leaving the familiar behind is uncomfortable and sometimes unpleasant. When we can stop ourselves from hurrying out of the “groan zone” and doing the important work we need to do there, our problem solving is …
A great article on Team Health Monitors via First Round Review Discussing the follow topics: How You’re Measuring Performance Isn’t Enough The Eight Elements of Healthy Teams Proof of concept One-pager Velocity Full-time owner Value and metrics Shared understanding Balanced team Managed dependencies The Six Steps to Evaluating Team Health
In 2011, Marc Andreesen famously wrote a Wall Street Journal essay declaring that “software is eating the world.” Five years later, the five largest companies in the world by market capitalization are all software companies. A great article via TechCrunch
Imagine two aspiring entrepreneurs: Meg and Jen. They are equally capable and well-connected, and they are working on equally promising startup ideas. In fact, imagine that Meg and Jen differ in just one respect: Meg is thinking about what a good fallback job would be and how she plans to pursue it if her current …
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 …
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 …
2015 was a tumultuous year for Big Data, with highs continuing to dazzle us with the potential world-changing power of data and analytics. At the same time there were plenty of lows serving as ongoing warnings that much is still unknown about exactly how it will end up changing the world. A nice article by …
An interesting article from Bill Shinn on implementing audit controls in DevOps in his presentation: The Last Mile for DevOps in Regulated Organizations. His presentation is also available through Youtube.
I believe that a coherent approach to systems architecture is needed, and I believe that all necessary aspects are already recognised individually: I want systems that are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. Read the The Reactive Manifesto.