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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

In my roles as CTO for various startups, its been an interesting repeating cycle for the CTO to have to wear lots of hats especially in the early days: from start-up systems architect to code monkey to development manager to ops manager then finally to CTO as the business scales over time and these roles warrant dedicated full-time staff.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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