I mentioned in my Securing a Cloud Based Platform post that we embarked upon an effort to build a PCI compliant security program; we really needed to improve upon several areas: We needed to improve our documentation We needed to modify existing or[…]

When I’m building business platforms, security is a considerable issue.  Security is definitely one of the technology issues that can get extremely expensive, timing consuming and complicated.  Like so many business decisions, security solution are investments that need to be within the maturity[…]

Yikes, a very long time has passed since my last post, I guess this is what happens when you start a company. Nearly every train ride I think, I should write something because I enjoyed doing this last year. It also got me[…]

Product Management is one of the most important disciplines in a technology company, certainly a top priority for both startup and scale.

I simply must enter through the gates of hell and get some testing done – no way around it. Load testing through reduction – no data movement, data cleansing, backups or load generation needed. Know thy products performance and scalability.

This just in… The CEO is very, very important to successful businesses.

Quickly boiling down a complicated issue to simplify decisions – ask the “Easy hard, hard easy” question.

Technology meteorologist have been forecasting a heavy amount of cloud computing in our future. Emerging technology is always challenged as it gains popularity and goes mainstream. The two big challenges have always focused on security and stability.

No battle was ever won without a plan, and no battle ever went according to plan