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1888h ago · 5 min read · You're sitting in a board meeting and someone asks: "Are we using AI yet?" The question hangs there. Everyone assumes AI means competitive advantage, but nobody's quite sure what that looks like in your specific context. That's the moment most CTOs r...
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6d ago · 7 min read · "He will not bring in any plan of his own. He will not devise or undertake anything, but he will hear everything, remember everything, and put everything in its place. He will not hinder anything useful nor allow anything harmful." — Prince Andrew Bo...
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Apr 22 · 8 min read · A year ago, you had a reasonable 12-month technical roadmap. Migrate to this architecture. Build that feature. Hire engineers for this domain. You could make plans with some confidence. Now every assumption is questionable. What you were going to hir...
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Apr 21 · 5 min read · You're a fintech CTO, and your board just asked you about AI governance in relation to SEC guidance, EU AI Act requirements, and what your competitors are doing. Your legal team has frameworks. Your risk team has concerns. But nobody's really sure ho...
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Apr 21 · 11 min read · Your senior developer is assigned to three projects. You assume they're giving each project a third of their time. Gerald Weinberg calculated the real math in Quality Software Management (1992): with three concurrent projects, each project gets about...
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Apr 20 · 6 min read · Your CTO just proposed a $500K AI initiative. The pitch sounded technical and forward-thinking. But you walked away confused about what you're actually buying and why you need it now. So you ask some questions and get answers that feel either too vag...
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Apr 20 · 11 min read · When someone searches for "devops certificates," they could mean two different things. They could be shopping for an AWS DevOps Professional exam voucher, or they could be an SRE who just got paged at 2am because an internal mTLS cert expired between...
Join discussionApr 20 · 10 min read · Nobody quits on a Monday. The resignation email you receive on a random Thursday was written — emotionally — six weeks ago. The disengagement started three months ago. And the data saw it coming the entire time. The 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Surv...
Join discussionApr 14 · 13 min read · Last year, a team I worked with had 347 certificates across three cloud providers and a handful of on-prem appliances. They knew about 280 of them. The other 67 surfaced during an audit after a wildcard cert expired on an internal load balancer at 2:...
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