Business Metrics and the Lack of Context
CTO Think Podcast23 Huhti 2019

Business Metrics and the Lack of Context

We discuss business metrics, reporting, statistics, and how many of the numbers, without context, lack much value. Can your business deliver the Five Nines? Does it even need to? What kind of performance can you guarantee when upstream providers are involved?

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Switching to Services

Switching to Services

Randy is part of a team focused on building a Service Oriented Architecture with Go. Don figures out he has always been using services, but the SOA acronym seemed to involve more than simply work. Ran...

12 Marras 201933min

Power Apps for the People

Power Apps for the People

Don has been hearing Randy tell him to quit coding so much and finally does something about it: He decides to build an app without writing a line of code (but not delegating it to someone else) by usi...

5 Marras 201940min

Is Accessibility a Worthwhile Focus?

Is Accessibility a Worthwhile Focus?

Domino's Pizza recently lost a lawsuit regarding the lack of accessibility features for their online ordering platform. Don and Randy discuss the ramifications of the decision and whether accessibilit...

29 Loka 201933min

A Front-End Dev That Can't Build a Website?

A Front-End Dev That Can't Build a Website?

Chris Coyier recently posted a tweet regarding a front-end developer he knew that "could not build a website." Is this strange? Shouldn't every developer that claims front-end skills be able to prop u...

15 Loka 201927min

How Should a CTO Use Their Time?

How Should a CTO Use Their Time?

When a CTO is juggling multiple responsibilities, people, and projects, what is the best use of their time? Randy, once again, tells Don to put down the keyboard and quit coding stuff!

1 Loka 201932min

Clean Code is Covered in Caca

Clean Code is Covered in Caca

This week, we shall rant! The term "Clean Code" is a vague and irresponsible phrase to use regarding programming and Randy will have nothing of it. It's time Uncle Bob's cute money-making catch phrase...

24 Syys 201925min

Organizational Train Wrecks explained by College Football Dumpster Fires

Organizational Train Wrecks explained by College Football Dumpster Fires

In honor of the second week of the college football season, Randy and Don discuss three programs, UCLA, Tennessee, and FSU, falling into disaster scenarios and compare each with CTO failures at techno...

10 Syys 201938min

Using a Framework Before Mastering the Language

Using a Framework Before Mastering the Language

Following a tweet from Ben Hong @bencodezen about whether people need to master JavaScript before using a framework, Don and Randy discuss how they have used, shipped, and been paid to use framework a...

27 Elo 201935min