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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. Early in my career, I knew I wanted to leverage technology to impact education. Create accessible technology. 2U is a cloud-based shop.

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CEO of TaskTop’s Book Introduces Flow Framework to Address Why DevOps/Agile Not Enough

Hearpreneur

Technology platforms, development paradigms, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that very few organizations have been able to keep up with. The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

At dinner last week, my long time friend Dave Jilk (we just celebrated our 30th friendship anniversary) tossed a hypothesis at me that as people age, they resist adopting new technologies. People working in information technology tend to take a producer perspective. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

agile engineering. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Mainframe Market

The Startup Magazine

This allows businesses to leverage new technologies and use popular open source tools with mainframe-oriented languages and automation services. In today’s quest for agile and flexible platforms, the mainframe is seen by many as an aging, slow, and dying system.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Serverless technologies…. If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotal’s recently filed S-1 on Friday. Infrastructure market moves way too fast and more software needed to help manage this chaos.

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