There are a few basic principles I have followed both with my own development teams and with those I’ve advised over the years. A few days ago I posted one of these, and it sparked a nice conversation on LinkedIn:
To begin with; a personal note. While long form postings here have been sparse, I’ve tweeted over a thousand article links over this year. Should the topics in this post be interesting to you, I want to invite you to a conversation there.
Is a self-driving car responsible for a traffic accident? Should a medical AI go to jail if it subjects a patient to a deadly dose of radiation? If a stock trading algorithm causes a market crash, should it be fined? Are we heading into an apocalypse and summoning…
When you’re thinking of offering an API as part of your own product, you should take some time to understand how to position its business value proposition in a way which makes long term sense. With a clear value proposition it will be much easier to justify the…
Setting goals we can keep is difficult, whether we think of personal or business objectives. Every so often, I resolve I will exercise more than the bare minimum, but a few weeks later, I will fall back to the old habits and excuses — today I’m too tired, maybe…
When Amazon Web Services first started popularizing cloud services, they weren’t quite the first to sell virtualized servers in place of managed hosting. However, they were among the first to sell them as an API, and moved very quickly to provide all sorts of services with…
While Data Science is something we’ve covered here in the past, measuring software starts from much more basic pieces. At some point during the development process of a cloud service, usually by the time you get ready for first public deployment, you’ll need to…
IndoorAtlas, where I led the mobile and cloud engineering teams in co-operation with the genius algorithm research team led by Esa Rahtu, the company’s co-founder and CTO, announced last week that the live roll-out of…
Apple’s Phil Schiller has told media that App Store’s supported pricing mechanics will be changing soon and they will also be introducing paid visibility in search results. These will be leading to significant changes to app designs…
