The 4 KPIs Behind High-Performance IT
I recently read Accelerate - The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. The premise is that a) DevOps principles and practices lead to…
I recently read Accelerate - The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. The premise is that a) DevOps principles and practices lead to…
Backend developers in a web application project are in charge of the components that users don’t see (database connections, cache systems, performance, security, and transactions, among others). Chances are that a backend may end up writing a bit of code for client apps, too: because of the lack of available JavaScript developers at any given moment, perhaps, or because a manager wants all features to be completed by one developer. Whatever the reason, when a backend programmer has to write frontend code, it causes a bit of frustration. Usually they don’t like to write styling (CSS), nor markups (HTML), and they probably don’t like JavaScript at all.
By Shiji Sujai, IOD Expert My first tryst with cloud can be traced back to 2007, when the term public cloud was synonymous with AWS. At the time, our team had…
It’s almost a year since I told Ofir Nachmani, CEO of IOD (and my boss), that I would be moving from Israel to the U.S. the following month. At that point, I had been working full-time for the company only for a short time.
To request from Ofir what I did — “Can I take this job to the U.S.?” — would likely be considered brazen and absurd at most other companies after half a year of employment, even in this digital age of remote work. But Ofir hardly missed a beat when he replied, “We’re a company of freelancers, how could I say, ‘no?’”
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