The expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine.  This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well.  Each department must operate at peak performance and the couplings between departments need optimization as well. In this episode, I interview business coach Jon

Infrastructure as Code is an approach to machine provisioning and setup in which a programmer describes the underlying services they need for their projects.  However, this infrastructure code doesn’t compile a binary artifact like traditional source code.  The successful completion of running the code signals that the servers and other components described in the configuration

As our guest today points out, most enterprise software applications are essentially forms for collecting data.  The tag and related components started appearing in HTML fairly early and those same concepts are still in use with modern web browsers.  However, the technology for capturing state, validating input, and providing other common services for the

By most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply.  Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code.  For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software engineers are as productive as possible.  The pace of business is often throttled by the

The first industrial deployments of machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions were bespoke by definition and often had brittle operating characteristics.  Almost no one builds custom databases, web servers, or email clients.  Yet technology groups today often consider developing homegrown ML and data solutions in order to solve their unique use cases.  Today’s modern data

Abstract Software Daily is a place to create software. Introduction SoftwareDaily.com is a social network that allows people from all over the world to come together and create software. Inspiration from Amazon Working at Amazon taught me that we can build anything. Inspiration from Facebook Writing “Move Fast” taught me that social networking will allow us to expand our

Phishing attacks, malware, and ransomware are just some of the major threats everyone connected to the internet faces.  For companies, the stakes are especially high.  Setting up a secure infrastructure is difficult.  Your adversary only needs to find one flaw to get in. Vancord is a private cybersecurity company, based in Connecticut, that was founded

In a version control system, a Monorepo is a version control management strategy in which all your code is contained in one potentially large but complete repository.  The monorepo is in stark contrast to an alternative approach in which software teams independently manage microservices or deliver software as libraries to be imported in other projects.

Companies that gather data about their users have an ethical obligation and legal responsibility to protect the personally identifiable information in their dataset.  Ideally, developers working on a software application wouldn’t need access to production data. Yet without high-quality example data, many technology groups stumble on avoidable problems.  Organizations need a solution to protect privacy

Applications write data to persistent storage like a database.  The most popular database query language is SQL which has many similar dialects.  SQL is expressive and powerful for describing what data you want.  What you do with that data requires a solution in the form of a data pipeline.  Ideally, these analytical workflows can follow