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- — Sotheby's Institute: Mass Appeal - Tech's New Role in Art Collecting and Fundraising Panel
This was a great conversation with Kickstarter Soraya Haas and Sotheby’s Noah Wunsch, moderated by Christine Kuan at Sotheby’s Institute. Much was said about learning vs. sellin...
- — Past, Present and Future of Art & Technology Panel at HG Contemporary
This was an incredibly inspiring conversation and a great turnout (youtube).
- — How To Do Startup Technical Due Diligence
As CTO I’ve gone through many rounds of technical due diligence with venture capital firms, and have done a few of these from the other side as a consultant. There’s a lot of in...
- — The Missing CTO and the IKEA Customer Service
The story of tiny startups upsetting entire industries is old. Here goes David and, once again, conquers Goliath. How did cable companies fail at the internet and are being shre...
- — Mentoring 101
This year my colleagues at Artsy created a formal fellowship program. We went out to many US colleges to recruit some of the brightest seniors. From thousands of applications we...
- — Doctors, Surgery and Open-Source
I visited a friend who lives in a remote, tropical region of the United States. He’s a doctor and a practicing eye surgeon. The island has both the very rich and the extremely p...
- — Why I am Excited About the new Cornell Tech School
- — 10 Things Engineers and Non-Engineers Can Do to Make a Website Faster
- — Treat Every Line of Code as If It's Going to be Thrown Away One Day
- — Losing Control to the Heroku PaaS
- — Migrating from a relational to a NoSQL cloud database?
- — Serkan Piantino on Scaling Facebook News Feed and Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr
I had the pleasure of interviewing two New York techies, Serkan Piantino of Facebook and Ken Little of Tumblr, at QConNY a couple of months ago. We mostly discussed large scale ...
- — How Not to Rewrite Everything
I wrote a blog post yesterday about How to Start Small With Big Data and Google Analytics. Essentially, it’s a jumpstart for fetching Google Analytics pageviews and merging the ...
- — Toyota Production System & Why Should Architects Write Code
- — Favorite Talks from QConfSF 2011
- — At QConSF 2011
I’m at QConSF 2011.
- — Making Agile Technology Choices
I really enjoy the conversation with software architects on how to make technology choices. I polled the members of the New York CTO club on the topic and got amazing war storie...
- — Pragmatic Replacement for the Vendor-Based, Bureaucratic and Soviet Style Technology Decision Makings
In my experience I’ve rarely looked back at a technology decision and claimed to have made the absolute right one. Oh, I stood in front of plenty executive management and presen...
- — Non-Traditional Methods of Choosing Technology for a Software Project
Yesterday I gave a talk on choosing technology for a software project. I argued that building software is unlike building rockets, toasters or power plants. This was very well r...
- — Slides from 'Choosing Technology'
Slides from today’s “Choosing Technology” that I gave at @gnrlassembly are here. Thank you all for coming!