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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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Software architecture lessons learned: interview with Patrick Kua

Apiumhub

Apiumhub team has interviewed Patrick Kua – seasoned technology leader with almost 20 years of experience, leading, managing and improving complex organisations and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin, Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks.

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8 Tech Influencers to Follow on Social Media

Apiumhub

From software architecture experts to authors of renowned books and entrepreneurs, this list spans a diverse spectrum of tech influencers. He is a software engineer, consultant, and author of “Continuous Delivery”, “Modern Software Engineering,” “CD Pipelines,” and “ Software Architecture Metrics.

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Why Enterprises Need to Prepare for Russian Cyberattacks – and Four Ways to Do It

Ivanti

Implement zero trust architecture. Corporations and public agencies should be implementing a zero trust architecture. Think of zero trust architecture as a chapter out of the CIA handbook – “on a need-to-know basis only.”?Organizations

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DevOps influencers to follow this year

Apiumhub

Gene is a DevOps enthusiast, The Phoenix Project and DevOps Handbook co-author, author of many books related to DevOps area. Jez is a co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise and DevOps Handbook. CTO at Devops-research.com and twitter activist. Microservices vs Monolithic architecture. Jez Humble. Why Kotlin ? .

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3 Highlights from CloudNative London 2019 (Day 2)

OpenCredo

Neil Avery, a technologist in the office of the CTO at Confluent , starts the talk by exploring how technology was once a supportive function but is now central to operating a business. He continues by looking at the complexities of handing state as well as scaling microservice architectures. Neil Avery. Jez Humble.

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How to be a Professional Software Developer

MagmaLabs

This is the opposite of architecture-driven development, where you solve "clean code" first, then scramble around trying to integrate into the design the things you learn as you solve the "that works" problem. SCNA 2012: Robert Martin — The Reasonable Expectations of Your CTO. References. 2012, 21 octubre). Martin, R.