Jake Hackl
How leaders kill meaning at work – McKinsey Quarterly – Governance – Leadership.
Long but good read on how senior leaders can affect the meaning of work to those below them on the ladder.
Great article by the team at Peecho on their architecture, why they went cloud-based and picked Amazon, and then an overview of their architecture.
High Scalability – High Scalability – Peecho Architecture – scalability on a shoestring.
Interesting read on the use of middleware and its relevance in a web 2.0 world. The comments should drive out some good discussion on what other folks have done.
High Scalability – High Scalability – Web 2.0 Killed the Middleware Star.
Mistakes happen. When I wrote email campaign software 10 years ago I neglected to build in a mechanism to disable multiple campaign executions and instead of sending 50,000 emails I was sending out 200,000 because I’m so click happy (50,000 x 4 = 200,000). My mistake and I spammed customers. I owned it, took accountability, [...]
A few weeks ago was the Overnight Website Challenge put on by The Nerdery and congratulations to the team from TST Media for winning the competition portion of the event. I’ve had a few interactions with TST through shared clients and I was happy to see Greg and [...]
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