Category: High Level Tech Intro
How To Build a System Workbench
With the growth of the Cloud, fewer and fewer people actually put their hands on hardware. But there are times that a cash-strapped startup, consultant or a frugal hobbyist/entrepreneur will want to get a MVP (Minimally Viable Product) up and running without having the recurring expense of deploying in the…
Can You Learn from the Cloud and Be More Secure?
The Internet has been described as the Wild West. It is expansive, diverse and chaotic. In old Westerns a new visitor to town often learned important details by talking to the local saloon bartender. Everyone tended to pass through for a drink. So the bartender saw and overheard a lot…
Yes, but Is Google Your Best Friend?
I was having a very interesting conversation with someone in our Marketing Department about the cadence of marketing and the over-abundance of technical content that exists today. This got me thinking that I need to take a closer look at how the consumers of the content I am tasked with…
So You Get the Need for Performance – but How Do You Improve It?
There are some eyeopening metrics out there about the correlation between performance and revenue. It has been 12 years since Amazon published their research that 100ms of delay cost them 1% in sales. And in 2013 Intuit published how each second of improved load time from 15 down to 7…
The Ease of Making Your Site Faster on Fastly (an Amazing CDN)
Performance is king. Despite that I’ve got this blog on some pretty ancient under-powered equipment. The first server was a 10 year old HP desktop with 2 gigs of RAM sitting in my garage. The new one is pretty old too, although a bit more powerful. That being said I…
Android Emulation, Hybrid Mobile Apps and the Demo
The last deal I helped win at Dynatrace before their first RIF was when I created a demo that provided all the visibility and power that a normal PoC (Proof of Concept) would have done – but integrated our UEM into the customer’s own mobile app. With any complex and/or…