Tag: technology
13 Jun, 2018
The Future of…
Growth We do a lot of work with growth companies, across all scales from startup to multi-national firms. This post on LinkedIn from Deby Joevita is a really great encapsulation of a growth lifecycle that works, and draws on well-established disciplines and methodologies. How Growth Stage Entrepreneurs Build Meaningful...
03 Apr, 2018
Technology for the Non-Technical
In a perfect world, no one needs help using the technology that’s critical to getting their job done. Far too often, however, the technology team is needed to maintain and update another team’s tools. This leads to increased costs, delays, and frustrations when what you need is not what...
20 Feb, 2018
Emergent Technologies Changing Our World – Part 1
The current rate of technology and computer science advancement is unprecedented. That’s saying a lot for an industry that is defined by rapid advancement and leaps forward. Within this, there are emerging a few areas of technological capability that are interesting. Interesting, that is, as in completely redefining business,...
10 Jan, 2017
Software vs The Evil Forces of Entropy
Requirements evolve, technology evolves, processes evolve, and users evolve. So why is it that the systems, applications, and their underlying architectures seemingly get built in a way that after a couple iterations of extension, they become brittle and saddled with “technical debt”? More importantly, is there anything that can...
28 Aug, 2015
Evolving in Place
A systematic approach to replacing old technologies and applications with new can save you time and money, improve continuity of operations, and allow you to keep up with your competitors. I often work with clients that have dated technologies and infrastructures, stuff that was modern and based on (mostly) good...
03 Feb, 2015
SSH Connection Multiplexing, Port Forwarding, and SOCK Proxy
By Rob Giseburt Introduction This is the third part of a series about using SSH with bastion hosts. You may wish to read the other parts if you haven’t already: Part 1: Using SSH Through A Bastion Host Transparently Part 2: Using SSH Bastion Hosts With AWS and Dynamically Locating Them With...
14 Jan, 2015
Using SSH Through A Bastion Host Transparently
By Rob Giseburt A Bastion host is a special purpose computer on a network specifically designed and configured to withstand attacks. The computer generally hosts a single application, for example a proxy server, and all other services are removed or limited to reduce the threat to the computer. It...
11 Jan, 2015
AngularJS: Why You Should Care
By Bill Lenoir Development teams are always on the lookout for more powerful tools that allow them to build better web applications faster. And it feels like there has been an unending stream of them over the last decade. AngularJS, an open source framework out of Google, is the...
23 Apr, 2013
Now That’s a Mobile App
By Frank Oelschlager Managing Director I read an article yesterday about Nasa using Google HTC Smartphones as the onboard computer for a series of earth science satellites. If you’ve ever doubted that your phone is actually a powerful hand-held computer, think again. Looks like we now live in a...