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This is an hilarious short movie made in 2014 showing the initial interaction between a customer, sales, project manager, expert" ( the only sane in the meeting) It was correct in 2014 and is still accurate in 2020 Read more...
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Summary tables Linux Suse RedHat Windows SQL Server Web SQL Server Standard SQL Server Enterprise Infrastructure Intro At Strategic Blue, we care about the money, and we’ve been collecting prices of AWS and other cloud vendors for a while. Another characteristic of Strategic Blue is that we are curious and love digging into the numbers, checking common assumptions, and find new ways to save money. The first article in the series focused on finding the cost of Windows on AWS and make some basic comparison with Azure A second article show an anomaly in AWS pricing probably due to a human error This article extends on those researches to split AWS pricing into three components: Read more...
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While looking in my bookmarks for First Time Founder Help I found this amazing website showing the pitch decks that made history and successfully helped raise money. Enjoy https://www.cirrusinsight.com/blog/startup-pitch-decks Read more...
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If you use any prioritisation for your tasks, you might have some ’low priority’ tasks that never make it to the top or (worst) only make it when they become critical. To solve this problem, my friend and colleague Stephen keeps a list of low priority tasks and blocks in his calendar, 2 hours every week to focus on low-priority tasks. Nice one Stephen! Read more...
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Moving or not moving to the cloud is a question for which a CTO needs to have an answer. For most CTO, the answer is a definite “yes”; the technical reasons are overwhelming. Yet as we know technology is complicated to explain to non-tech, and the fact that moving to the cloud includes a paradigm shift on money management (e.g. CAPEX vs OPEX) makes it hard to get the CFO on your side. Read more...
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Fun facts page on livin3.com - https://www.livin3.com/50-cool-and-weird-fun-facts-that-you-should-know Read more...
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If in any meeting the higher in rank talks first, the others will follow, and this kills initiative and creativity. Next time you have a meeting with a team, ask the person in charge to follow this process: ask a question have everyone vote secretly (write on a paper) their answers reveal all the answer and have a discussion For example: Are we ready to ship the product? (open questions are better, but for the sake of making a simple example I go against my own rules) People write their answers If the answers are different then have a chat, possibly with the leader staying silent, unless a final word is needed. Read more...
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Would you be able to work if Internet was down for any kind of reason? To make it possible to at least survive you should consider using tools that keep offline copies (on your computer) of the data. For example Mail if you use gmail, you can keep a copy of all email (and reply, write, etc…) by using a mail client like Thunderbird or Apple Mail or Microsoft Outlook Documents: Google Docs offline Home finance: GNU Cash Read more...
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Do you ever feel that after a full day of work you have not done anything? This feeling is often due to being busy doing tasks on other people todo list. The only way I found, to protect me from a wasted day (at least it feels like this) is to have one or two Most Important Tasks from my todo list and do them first thing of the day, even before checking email. Read more...
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This is a short rant email. I’m studying for the AWS Solution Architect Pro exam, so I’m reading a lot of whitepapers and documentation. I got very upset (no good reason really) about the inactivity of the IT industry as a whole. The problems discussed in the micro-services whitepaper are the same that we (as a team inside Coblan srl) were trying to solve 15 years ago. While the name micro-services existed the concepts are the same. Read more...