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High Stakes Communication: The Four Pillars of Effective Leadership Communication
You’ve been there before: standing in front of your team, announcing a major technological transformation that you know is crucial for the company’s future. Despite your careful preparation, you can see it in their eyes—skepticism, confusion, or worse, quiet resignation. The change you’re proposing may be exactly what the organization needs, but your message isn’t…
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Navigating Cloud Decisions: Debunking Myths and Mitigating Risks
Organizations face critical decisions when selecting cloud service providers (CSPs). A recent paper titled Strategic Decision-Making in Cloud Services: De-Risking Cloud Lock-In offers insights for senior technology leaders, particularly those in the United States Government, as they navigate these complex choices. The authors challenge common assumptions about cloud vendor selection and provide practical guidance for…
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Does Crossplane Replace Terraform? Part I: the Theory
What is Crossplane? If you don’t already know, Crossplane is billed as an: Go to Source
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Paralysed by Perfection: the Case for Action in Times of Change
Imagine a business that knows its survival depends on change—but can’t decide how to act. This scenario plays out more often than you’d think, with fear of failure paralysing decision-making and ensuring stagnation. This scenario can be summarised as a paradox: Go to Source
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OK Cloud, On-Prem is Alright
As someone who has worked in software since 2001, and in the Cloud Native (containerisation and Kubernetes) space since 2013, I’m getting old enough to have seen trends come and go a few times. VMs came (and stayed), continuous integration went from a fad talked about by gurus to the mainstream of software delivery, and…
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At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill?
SQL is turning 50 years old later this week 🎉 In your opinion, which are the best bits? Which are the worst? pic.twitter.com/aAB5emHuip — Jeremy Taylor (@refset) April 29, 2024 Go to Source
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In Praise of Low Tech DevEx
When I started my career as an engineer in the early noughties, I was very keen on developer experience (devex). So when I joined a company whose chosen language was TCL (no, really), I decided to ask the engineering mailing list what IDEs they used. Surely the senior engineers, with all their wisdom and experience, would tell…
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Learn jq the Hard Way,Part IV: Pipes
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