Eliot HorowitzTriggering an Email From Database Updates with MongoDB StitchManaging people budgets, salaries, hiring plans, raises, and equity grants for a large growing engineering team can be challenging. State…Aug 30, 2018Aug 30, 2018
Eliot HorowitzParallel Engineering EffortsOne of the most important things an organization can do as it grows out of startup-hood to maturity is to learn to run parallel engineering…Feb 15, 2017Feb 15, 2017
Eliot HorowitzNASDAQ CTO Summit 2016 Talk: Coding Time for Managers, ReduxOn November 1st, 2016, I gave a talk at the CTO Summit series hosted by NASDAQ. It was a 20 minute talk, updating and expanding on a topic…Dec 22, 2016Dec 22, 2016
Eliot HorowitzAlways Be Working With CustomersLast week I was in Israel for the MongoDBeer meetup and an enterprise event, both hosted by Matrix, one of our partners, and a few really…Sep 29, 2016Sep 29, 2016
Eliot HorowitzDotScale 2016 Talk: The Case for Cross-Service JoinsBack on April 25th I spoke at dotScale in Paris; I gave a talk called “The Case for Cross-Service Joins,” as in queries that join data…Sep 26, 2016Sep 26, 2016
Eliot HorowitzInnovate vs. AppropriateOne theme I kept harping on at MongoDB World a few weeks ago was knowing when to innovate around new ideas and when to just reuse what…Jul 25, 2016Jul 25, 2016
Eliot HorowitzBackend as a Service: Security and PrivacyAlmost all modern applications are composed of presentation layers, services executing business logic, and backing stores where the data…May 3, 20161May 3, 20161
Eliot HorowitzJira Email SummarizerI’ve written a Python program to do something fancy with JIRA that I couldn’t get using built-in facilities. You already get notifications…Jan 13, 2014Jan 13, 2014
Eliot HorowitzDebugging the Boss: The True DemocratThe True Democrat never makes decisions, they only operate by total consensus. This approach will lead to just as much unhappiness in a…Nov 22, 2013Nov 22, 2013
Eliot HorowitzDebugging the Boss: The Glory HogThe Glory Hog is really bad news. They want to take credit for the work their team does, and are more interested in their own advancement…Nov 19, 2013Nov 19, 2013