Recently Ancestry employees in San Francisco volunteered to help Genesys Works, a local nonprofit. Their mission is simple: to change the life trajectory of underprivileged high school students by enabling them to work in meaningful internships, at major corporations, during their senior year in high school. The organization has partnered with JPMorgan, Accenture, Salesforce, PG&E Read More
From an engineering and development standpoint, one of the most important aspects of cloud infrastructure is the concept of unlimited resources. The idea of being able to get a new server to experiment with, or being able to spin up more servers on the fly to handle a traffic spike is a foundational benefit of Read More
As I described in the introduction of this series, taking an IT function to the next level is a complex journey involving the maturation of several disciplines. The first section we will deal with the need to have several key individuals who act as change agents and can drive maturation in a disciplined way. In Read More
This series of essays will explore IT transformation (“futurization”) as a functional discipline of the business. IT transformation has clear business purposes. The transformational activity works to: increase speed to market for the business’s products and services, provide new and fulfilling career paths to IT engineers, increase reliability, availability and performance of systems and Read More