The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The Financial Times recently ran analysis and guest op-eds that sought to explain value in and from IT. One went as far as to challenge whether the corporate CIO has a future. Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Whether or not to design in the browser is an often debated subject. The latest discussion seems to be prompted, in part, because of the recent Responsive Summit (by the way, if you haven’t done so already, be sure to check out a few recaps of the day ). Mark Boulton just put his thoughts to screen with a post entitled “Responsive Summit: The One Tool”.

Design 40

Design Website Code Processing 40

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Don’t trust hardware or software; then you can build trustworthy hardware and software. James Hamilton on how to write reliable software in a world where anything that can fail, will fail.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Software Development 40

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like the CAP theorem apply well to NoSQL systems.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279