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It’s An Agile World

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For three years management has been trying to fix the problem, and the fix is always “just around the corner” It’s broken at every level, from the week-long deployment processes, the 50% failure rate for deploys, and the inability to scale the service. operates at seven 9s reliability. deploys in 30 seconds.

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Gnip Is On Fire

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The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO.

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Wandering The Earth Like Caine From Kung Fu

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David Cohen and I have a series of events throughout the day , starting with Pitch More Faster, TechStars for an Hour, and Angels in the Architecture being hosted at Cooley’s office. I then travel to Quebec to give one of the keynotes at The Quebec City Conference. Yes, I brought my passport.

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Slice of Lime Looking for Two Senior UI/UX People in Boulder

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We’re looking for an individual that can: Interact directly with a client and be accountable for managing their own project schedule and deliverables. Create strategy documents such as personas, information architecture, user paths, and wireframes. Run meetings and present / defend your strategy and design work.

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Learning the Right Lessons from the Amazon Outage

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Your application and deployment architecture may not be ready for this. The architectural changes required to accommodate the public IaaS cloud are a good idea even if you never move the application there. This requires a bias alert: cloud portability is one of the things Standing Cloud enables for the applications it manages.

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Technical Demo of Oblong’s g-speak Spatial Operating Environment

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It’s a 30 minute presentation by Mary Ann de Lares Norris, the Managing Director of Oblong Europe, that is an excellent overview of Oblong’s technology. From there Mary Ann gets into “Pools & Proteins&# and starts talking about the architecture and design philosophy of g-speak and how it works.