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The Wix Guild Model

Find out how the Wix model works as a team topology that allows large organizations tooperate with the nimbleness and innovation of startups and also allow time for the professional development of all their team members.

Platform Engineering 101: Why You Need It and How To Build It

Find out how Platform Engineering will help scaley our DevOps sutainably as well how to build your first platform team

How to leverage one-on-one meetings to improve employee engagement as a CTO

Find out to run effective one-on-one meetings as CTO with tips from meeting scientist Dr. Steven Rogelberg. We discuss agenda, roles, cadence and more

Landing Your Ideal CTO Role in 2023: Navigating the Job Market and Finding the Right Fit

Ace your CTO job search with expert advice tailored to tech leaders! Uncover essential tips on location, company stage, domain expertise, cultural fit, and red flags. Navigate the CTO job market and elevate your tech career with ease.

How PESPA Improves Both Developer and User Experience

Explore how PESPA revolutionizes web development by merging SPA-like user experience with MPA-like developer simplicity, featuring insights from Remix co-founder Kent C. Dodds.

Onboarding a Remote Employee: From IT Provisioning to Company Culture

How to onboard new remote employees - from sending them the devices they need (IT Procurement and Provisioning) to onboarding them to the company culture with onboarding tools

4 Tips on How to Recruit a Remote Workforce

Learn how to recruit your remote team smartly to properly make use of the benefits of a global workforce.

Remote Compensation: How to Work Out Salary Bands for a Global Workforce

Find out how to compensate remote employees with fair salary bands that incorporate cost of living, local taxes, and their local market.

SaaS Pricing 101

Learn the ins and outs of SaaS pricing with this comprehensive guide. Discover the importance of a value metric and how to optimize your pricing strategy for maximum growth. Explore the differences between user-based, usage-based pricing, and tiered pricing, the benefits of the freemium model, and why you should not use grandfathered pricing. Learn how to communicate a price increase.

How to Evolve Your Role as Founding CTO

Find out how you can find your place in the company as the founding CTO as the company grows.

How to Use Tickets Correctly in Product Management and Software Development

Find a better way to use tickets in your software development process using product management concepts from the Shape Up Methodology. In this article, you learn how to use packages and pitches and use tickets only for discovered tasks.

How to Monetise a Mobile App

Find out how you can earn money from your mobile app or game - starting with setting up attribution and in-app analytics and finally - how to get others advertise on your app

Creating a Mobile Version of an Ecommerce Web App: Native vs. Containerised SPA

Find out why you might want to create a containerised web app as a mobile application instead of starting coding your e-commerce application from scratch in native code.

How to Create Simulations for Reinforcement Learning

Found out what goes into creating simulations for use in reinforcement learning with a real example from the autonomous vehicle industry.

Where C Plus Plus excels

Why do people choose to code in C++ when there are many other languages available? Bjarne Stroustrup explains what makes C++ so useful + the past, present and future of C++.

IC Career Track: Job Titles and Roles in Tech

Find out how titles and roles change along the IC career track. Discover how requirements differ between junior roles and senior roles and the 4 disciplines every leader needs.

How to use No-Code, Low-Code and API-first hardcode in your Tech Stack

Save time and be more productive by pairing an API-first hardcode infrastructure with no-code & low-code tools in an automation-first culture

The Case For Language-Agnostic Hiring

When you are hiring, you should think beyond languages and instead look at software craftsmanship, argues Uncle Bob, the Clean Coder.

How to Tool for Developer Productivity

Find out how to develop effective tooling in an efficient manner including build vs buy and success metrics for developer satisfaction & productivity

How to Retain Tech Talent Through the 6 Rules of Engagement

Retain tech talent (and prevent attrition) with these 6 Rules of Engagement which make you the CTO everyone wants to work for. Find out how you communicate expectations, lead autonomous or remote teams and build relationships with your team.

6 Tips to Overcome Scaling Challenges Like Design Decisions, Tech Debt, and Developer Satisfaction

Scaling isn’t easy. You will need to set up processes on how things are going to work now that you are a big company with multiple teams. In this article, we discussed how to make design decisions, handle tech debt and keep in touch with developers now that the company is so much bigger.

Focus and Flow: Productivity Tips to Improve your Work-Life Balance

Find out how to manage meetings, notifications and Slack to allow for better flow & focus at work, which will make you more productive and allow for a better work/life balance in tech.

The Best Way to Assess Candidates Skill in a Technical Interview

Find out how to assess candidates' technical skills in this roundup article in which experienced CTO share the pros and cons of the various methods (live coding vs take-home test vs whiteboard interviews vs code analysis).

Bootstrapping A StartUp in 2022 According to DHH

Find out the best way to bootstrap a start-up with advice from DHH - veteran SaaS founder and CTO - detailing everything from team size to product discovery,

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 to Excel at Product - Insights from the Top 10% Performing Product Companies

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