How Amazon Web Services Isn’t Winning and the Problems it Poses
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the undisputed leader of the public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market. And as more and more organizations realize the massive business agility benefits of...
View ArticleYour Lead Architect Doesn’t Really Understand Microservices
A few months ago, I was asked to review an infrastructure diagram for an application that would use a “microservices” architecture. “I only see one database labeled here,” I said. “What are the...
View ArticleDon’t Get Too Caught Up With Containers and Microservices
Most people get it now: the cloud — and more the public cloud than the private cloud — is something we should be using. This is true when it comes to much software that we use regularly (e.g., Google...
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How the Enterprise Adopts the New Stack, or “I Said No, Dammit”
Here’s the typical enterprise stack adoption cycle: Year 1: The way we do things is great; all that crap that startups are doing is basically just the same as what we do, but obviously we’re better....
View ArticleHey Startups: Turning Off Slack Won’t Solve Your Management Problems
It has become de rigueur to complain about Slack these days. Dave Teare, founder of Agile Bits (developers of 1Password), recently wrote that his company’s “Slack Addiction” led to “using it over all...
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Why I Often Choose Webtask over AWS Lambda
Joe Emison Bio: Joe Emison is Founder and Chief Technology Officer at BuildFax, the only provider of automated property condition information to the insurance and lending industries. Joe launched...
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It’s All About Software Development: The Fierce Rise of AWS
Joe Emison Bio: Joe Emison is Founder and Chief Technology Officer at BuildFax, the only provider of automated property condition information to the insurance and lending industries. Joe launched...
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Software Development: It’s Not Like Construction!
“It’s All About Software Development” is a series of posts exploring why organizations should care about optimizing for effective software development. What does effective software development look...
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Software Development Starts with the Product
Joe Emison Bio: Joe Emison is Chief Information Officer at Xceligent, a leading provider of commercial real estate information across the United States. Joe is a serial technical entrepreneur, most...
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The Four Critical Practices of Effective Software Development
Joe Emison Joe Emison is Chief Information Officer at Xceligent, a leading provider of commercial real estate information across the United States. Joe is a serial technical entrepreneur, most...
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Why The Middle Tier, Including Docker, Won’t Matter to Most of Us
The rise of cloud computing (read: VMs, containers, bare metal by API) is of enormous benefit to businesses everywhere: we can now deliver products faster and better using fewer workers than ever...
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