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Which software consultants do startups love to work with?

TechCrunch

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Consultant: Appetiser Apps. Testimonial: “They had a good reputation globally and had produced some good products. Consultant: Aloa.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

Embrace metrics and iterate To achieve maximum efficiency, Cziomer also suggests focusing service efforts on DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics, such as “lead time for change” and “time to restore service.” Customer-centric Net Promoter Scores are equally important, he adds. “To

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

CIO

Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America. “If Top areas include product management, agile methodologies, design thinking, continuous improvement, and change management practices.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. 20 influential women in software development. .

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. Larry: That’s an interesting question.

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From legacy infrastructure to a lean and powerful stack with Netlify

Netlify

Taylor MacDonald, CTO of Ample explained that at the time Crossroads had a full DevOps team who were just dipping their toe into figuring out how to dockerize and eliminate single points of failure. Their vision was to introduce improved systems and processes, without having to first dismantle or disrupt what already existed.

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Chaos Engineering and Continuous Verification in Production

LaunchDarkly

So, I’m going to talk about a couple different mental models and how those relate back to doing things in production and some of the evolution that we’re seeing in, for lack of a better word, DevOps and best practices across the industry. If they have to consult the runbook, then it’s basically a guess on their part.