When I first met Alex Solomon, Andrew Miklas, and Baskar Puvanathasan back in December 2012, it became clear very quickly that these were founders with deep domain expertise in the problem they had set out to solve. The ...

From the old claim that “IT doesn’t matter” and question of whether tech truly drives organizational performance, we’ve been consumed with figuring out how to measure — and predict — t...

What happens when monolithic architectures are broken down into containers and microservices (or when things are broken down into smaller units, not just in infrastructure but perhaps even in company structure too)? From...

In this, world of massive cloud-based applications and services, rolling out software has moved from an episodic event to an almost continuous release cycle. In that environment, software products aren’t as “done” ...

Virtualization has been a key driver behind every major trend in software, from search to social networks to SaaS, over the past decade. In fact, most of the applications we use — and cloud computing as we know it ...

When a group of developers met in 2001 to debate and discuss a new set of “lightweight” methods for software development, the Agile Manifesto was born. Essentially, it helped to codify the hodgepodge of learnings i...

When I started at Hotmail in 1996, we were thirteen people, and frankly, we didn’t know what we were doing… The company had recently launched the first Software as a Service (SaaS) application to the world, and we we...