Category: Basic Querying

August 20, 2019

In holding various leadership positions in Operations engineering organizations over more than 20 years – either as a team lead, architect, or leading a global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization – I developed a philosophy that I’ve used as guidance […]

July 31, 2019

The AWS DeepRacer is an almost toylike 1/18th scale race car. It comes with all of the sensors and software tools to help developers build machine learning models to drive the car around a course — or really do anything […]

July 24, 2019

When was the last time you answered these three questions from the perspective of your client or customer: Why you? Why now? What makes you relevant? Better yet, when was the last time that you asked them for their candid […]

July 18, 2019

Over almost 30 years of IT industry experience, I’ve found that the key business relationships technology vendors and solution providers tend to value most highly are often with chief information officers (CIOs). The CIO is commonly the highest-ranking IT resource […]

July 16, 2019

The future of IT, say KPMG experts, will revolve around a decentralized operating model in which organizations expect IT to work at market speed. That means technology leaders have to rethink how roles and skills are aligned, says Jeoung Oh, […]

May 29, 2019

For the last year, I’ve been opening my CIO conversations with the question: “Is your executive committee on the same page regarding what ‘digital’ means to your company?” For the first few months, the answer was no. To CEOs and […]

April 26, 2019

It’s a widely acknowledged fact that many industries suffer from endemic lack of diversity, and that efforts to tip the scales the other way often run into resistance. Such was the case, for example, when Google Employee James Damore claimed […]

April 9, 2019

Software is becoming more and more complex, and as a result, it’s become increasingly difficult to have a true, real-time grasp of what’s actually in software portfolios. From undocumented features, to unknown security vulnerabilities to code libraries used, CIOs and […]

April 3, 2019

Let’s address the elephant in the room: innovation is a journey. The reality is that you will have your share of failures mixed in with some successes. Now, imagine these efforts as a cluster of small experiments, and learning opportunities […]

March 27, 2019

Myths can be fun and entertaining when they involve the exploits of ancient gods and heroes. The amusement stops quickly, however, when a myth hampers IT or enterprise success. So it goes with the stubborn misconceptions that delay or prevent […]