We’ve been going through a number of IT changes lately, server migration, consolidating authentication mechanisms, virtualization, etc. Some of these changes have been painful because they’ve caused breakage. Authentication has broken so developers can’t log into the build system. Other changes have been painful because they’ve caused performance problems that did not appear right away [...]
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Testing for Infrastructure Changes
August 24th, 2008 Comments Off
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Outsourced IT
August 24th, 2008 Comments Off
The IT team at the company I work for is outsourced to another company that provides IT services. This post is brief analysis of the pros and cons that I’ve encountered.
Outsourcing IT allows my company to get cost-efficient service and skills without hiring dedicated employees, but it means that we really don’t have 9-5 service. [...]
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Physics Rap
August 1st, 2008 Comments Off
Ah, yeah. I love physics rap.
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John Doerr on greentech
June 13th, 2007 No Comments
John Doerr shares his fears about our current direction with respect to climate change.
Watch on blip.tv
via tedtalks in Democracy.
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