Feld Thoughts
MARCH 19, 2014
You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. You would think that by now, managing websites would be a solved problem, but that’s just not true. In our portfolio of startup companies, following is how websites usually get managed.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. implemented with 2 engineers compared to an estimated 25 for the old system. We have management buy-in, and they want to do the same for the rest of the services.
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Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 18, 2017
In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web. Until very recently, setting up HTTPS meant purchasing and managing certificates and configuring them correctly to work with your web server.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 6, 2016
Too often, aspiring engineers who lack the funds to pursue a computer science degree from a university or take part in a bootcamp find themselves locked out of technology jobs, despite often severe talent shortages. After about six months, graduating apprentices are qualified junior developers, ready to work.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 30, 2011
You want to showcase your best engineers in the process balanced with those who are good interviewers (which can be wildly different). Have an awesome engineering process that you are pros at and can showcase in the interview.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2014
In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. Maybe you just want to kick butt in your day job. Prioritizing the Three Most Important Actions.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Over Thanksgiving, I gave up trying to get my photos and Amy’s photos co-managed so I finally just gave all my photos to Apple and iCloud in a separate photo store from all of Amy’s photos (which include all of our 25,000 or so shared photos.) ” It happened again a few hours later.
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