A set of principles does not make a strategy. Though it’s certainly better to have a set of principles than to have no principles and no strategy.

Omer Hamerman joins Adventures in DevOps to discuss cost optimization, sharing strategies and methods impacting application performance.

Not every company, especially early on, needs a "real" CTO.

Would you hire someone to learn to play chess for you?

I've found myself recently questioning the age-old advice of "build it if it's central to your business."

How to map a value chain, along two axes: evolution versus visibility.

Nir Valtman joins us to discuss some of the issues and challenges in building his company, Arnica.

How open-source software is used in enterprises, the functions it serves, and trade-offs it brings.

Is a 99.999% SLA unrealistic? Does it actually matter?

Gorjan Jovanoski is the co-founder of AirCare, the mobile app that helps you know what you breathe. He joins me to tell the story of founding AirCare, and share some of the surprises, good and bad, along the way.

"When will it be done?" they ask. "When can we stop paying developers to maintain this software?"