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How to Use Data to Optimise your Technical Recruiting and Hiring Funnel

Attract top tech talent when you use data to improve your technical recruiting strategy in everything from talent sourcing to the screening and Interview process. Codility CTO shares tips that will help you when hiring everything from entry-level developers to mid-level engineering managers and senior CTOs.

Building a Full Stack API

Find out how to build a full stack API architecture that incorporates mobile APIs, internal APIs (within microservices) & external APIs (that you provide to other developers). Marco Palladino talks about the future of APIs, the API economy & the benefits of a service mesh.

Best Community Networks for CTOs, Engineering Managers and Other Technical Leaders

Find the best online CTO Community Network for you from a list that features both free and paid options, public and private groups as well as groups for other technology leaders such as engineering managers.

The IAM Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends

Find out about the opportunities, challenges, and trends in the Identity Management (IAM) industry as Sagnik Nandy, CTO of Okta shares his thoughts on the passwordless future and more.

Building a Scalable Product

Learn how to build scalable products from a CTO with scaling experience. Find out how to code to allow for future features, refactoring, and code deprecation.

NodeJS vs Ruby vs PHP: How to choose a language for your web application

Learn which language to code your dynamic web application ( e-commerce, static or dynamic web applications). Experienced CTO Fabian Wesner discusses PHP vs Ruby vs NodeJS and suggests the best languages and frameworks for your use case.

How to be a CTO of a Remote Start Up

Kore Nordmann shares tips on how to lead a tech team from the benefits of pair programming over pull request review to instructions on how to set up a virtual office for remote interaction.

Recruiting Tips to Increase Diversity while Saving Time

How to recruit in the competitive market of today

How to Build an Internal Culture

What makes a great internal culture at a tech company? Mark Porter is now the CTO of MongoDB yet over the past 40 years he has worked at companies like Oracle, AWS, NASA, and Grab. Learn from Mark about creating a great internal work culture: from hierarchies and diversity initiatives to metrics and mentorships.

How to Secure your App

Learn about securing apps from someone in the highly regulated FinTech industry. A CTO of a leading neo-brokerage firm shares how to secure user connections, data, and transactions.

How to Grow a B2B SaaS Startup

Learn how to grow and scale a B2B SaaS start-up with tips on sales, business strategy, and making use of investor networks from one of the pioneers in the field.

Testing in Production and other Tips on Observability

Charity Majors tests in production. And is proud of it. In this article Charity shares with us why she believes in testing in production and how to do it right using contemporary tools and observability

How to be a Great CTO and Achieve Production Excellence

A socio-technical thought leader shares tips that apply to whatever form your technical leadership takes. She urges us to rethink the hierarchy, provide feedback loops and keep employees happy.

How AIOps is the future of DevOps Automation

Could the DevOps world be more efficient with on-call-management, AIOps, and automating routine debugging tasks? The CTO of PagerDuty shares his vision for the future of DevOps Automation and the future of DevOps.

The Importance of Open Source. Cloud Native Tech and Developer Advocacy feat. Cheryl Hung of the CNCF

Why is Developer Advocacy important? Is Edge Computing is the next frontier in Cloud Native? Is Kubernetes for everyone? Why should End-User companies contribute to the Open Source? Cheryl Hung of the CCNF is here to explain.

The Use of BlockChain for Verification - EU Vaccines Passport Program and more

How do vaccine passes work? Matthias Jugel shares how one can use crypto and blockchain for verification purposes such as tickets, manufacturing, self-sovereign identities, and more.. Includes python script to decode the EU covid-19 vaccine certificate

2021 AI and Machine Learning Trends

What trends to look out for in Machine Learning and AI in 2021? Apart from the reduction of data required to train models, Rasmus Rothe predicts greater use in BioTech (e.g. cancer diagnosis), Autonomous Vehicles, and MLOps. Must read for CTOs.

Successfully managing remote companies: GitLab CTO Eric Johnson Shares 10 Tips to Make the Most of the New Normal

Learn how to how to manage remote tech teams. The CTO of GitLab discusses async collaboration, multiple timezones, stand-ups, onboarding, burnout, internships, compensation, and more. Read more for tips on leading a WFH global workforce.

How to Grow Sustainably

We Are the Cloud!

Building unstoppable open source organizations

The Weakest Link in the Chain - Privacy Engineering

Reinventing web performance using webassembly and the edge cloud

Building a Scalable eCommerce Platform at Shopify

"My favorite team size is three people" - Podcast with David Heinemeier Hansson

People over Tech with Matthias Laug

Data is new oil - Podcast with Johannes Schaback

Learn about data-driven e-commerce from the CTO of home24, a website that uses ML and AI to sell furniture online. In this podcast for CTOs, Johannes Schaback also reflects on how MLOps and ML infrastructure is evolving.

Mastering robotics, IoT and AI at once - Podcast with Ahti Heinla

How 90% of the companies do product wrong - Podcast with Marty Cagan

Find out how to build product that people want to use with this product discovery talk by Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group

How to grow a SaaS company – Podcast with Sergei Anikin

Find out how to grow a SaaS company - from directing innovation to marketing with this article for CTOs

Cybersecurity is a process, not a project

Learn top cybersecurity insight from the creator of the Hypponen Law about IoT security.

Brace for a future where 90% of your work is done by your machines - Podcast with Sebastian Thrun

Learn about self-driving cars, ai-powered early cancer detection and the German tech scene,

Decentralized Banking is the Future

Find out about decentralized banking, an agile approach to banking and more about the FinTech industry

It Takes Three Programmers to Change the World

Learn great technical leadership and management tips from Eric Bowman of TomTom