Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There’s a bunch of tools that I’ve actually developed specifically for this care package, and I put them in a little beautiful folder called new manager toolkit which you can also buy separately from the care package and that includes a manager Voltron card to help you figure out your network of support as you grow. We still chat.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Coaching Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 52

Tenable

MAY 3, 2024

1 - Verizon DBIR: Hackers feasting on unpatched vulnerabilities This year’s edition of Verizon’s “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) is out, and a key finding is that attackers tripled down on exploiting vulnerabilities to gain an initial foothold in victims’ networks. Last year, participating U.S. Congress subcommittee this week.

Infrastructure 70

Infrastructure Programming Conference Fractional VPE 70

Battery Ventures

APRIL 8, 2019

Few in-house recruiters have the expertise or network that a professional, third-party recruiter offers. It can be daunting to trust a challenging and high-stakes process to an outside consultant. A former boss of mine was a recruiter who only did VP of engineering and CTO searches.

Part-Time VPE 40

Part-Time VPE Recruiting Fractional VPE Fractional CTO 40

Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

DevOps 96

DevOps Engineering Software Review Weak Development Team 96

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The VP was concerned about cross-product coordination as the organization grew.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Here’s an example of how manager buy-in works in a complex situation, drawn from my experience as a consultant. The VP liked what I had to say. Have a solid support network.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 9, 2019

To validate their findings, they contracted another data scientist with a specialty in image processing. In the two hours I spent with the team, it was clear that the algorithm could be distributed on a general-purpose compute engine, like Spark. They could have used a general-purpose compute engine and been better off.

Data Engineering 111

Data Engineering Engineering Data Technical Review 111

taos

JULY 18, 2017

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Whether network, storage or compute; public clouds offer a considerable amount of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) components which can replace an entire traditional data center. Public cloud is not cheaper!

Cloud 40

Cloud Part-Time VPE Data Center Technical Review 40