September 11th, 2008 | by kate | published in technology
I am a big fan of working globally. I love the way technology has revolutionized the way we can manage our teams and you can find the right people with the right skillset when you need it. There are lots of great tools that have been developed that allow desktop sharing and collaboration. Both WebEx [...]
August 22nd, 2008 | by kate | published in career, technology
I have always thought that the reason places like Google catered food was because it was a nice perk for the employees. A year ago I would have never thought that I would be advocating this practice for all start-ups. So how did I change my mind? Let me tell the story.
Not [...]
July 21st, 2008 | by kate | published in technology
So Amazon’s S3 had a major outage this weekend. There service dashboard had the service unavailable for over 6 hours. This of course was bad news for all the startups that rely on S3 for their applications, as most were crippled with this outage.
I am a big believer in cloud computing and feel strongly that [...]
July 15th, 2008 | by kate | published in technology
In talking with some of my CTO friends, one of the things that has come up is what a pain in the butt it is to choose a CDN. There isn’t any widely available testing tool and there are so many different things to think about when negotiating a contract with these people. [...]
June 11th, 2008 | by kate | published in technology
I came across this article which articulates some of the challenges of having a great, easy to use product, and an open platform where other can innovate on top of your technology (enabling all sorts of useful applications and if you monetize it correctly additional revenue streams).
When I was at Windows this was one of [...]
May 30th, 2008 | by kate | published in career, technology
There are a lot of hiring managers and potential employers who somehow managed to get stuck on “we need a person who is an expert in xxxx technology”. Sometimes, you may have a business case why you need a specialist or a specialized set of skills, but for the majority of circumstances I would argue [...]
April 17th, 2008 | by kate | published in technology
So Amazon just announced that they will be providing premium support for the web services (EC2, S3, and SQS). They are including a service level dashboard to keep users up to date on issues and the health of their services. This is very exciting news, since it shows Amazon’s commitment to web services [...]
March 27th, 2008 | by kate | published in career, technology
As a hiring manager I have done a lot of interviews. As you talk with other hiring managers about hiring engineers there seems to be this debate about whether candidates should write code in an interview. I believe that any candidate who expects to work on my team better be able to write [...]
