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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

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These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. Architecture All startups will make a lot of changes and scale the product as they move along. Issues with the architecture and technical team will take longer to diagnose.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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No one owns architecture. And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. Marking bugs as fixed that aren’t fixed. Massive overtime. No communication between developers. No clear leader.

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TechEmpower Benchmarks and the Microsoft ASP.NET Core 1.0 Performance Story

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This new release is one of the most significant architectural updates we’ve done to ASP.NET. Kestrel has been designed from the start to be the fastest.NET server available, and our engineers have recorded some benchmarks to prove it. You may or may not be aware that Microsoft just announced the release of ASP.NET Core 1.0:

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