Quotes About Technology

two of the three legs of the 'confidentiality, integrity, and availability triangle' or cia." He

Every industry and company that is not bringing software to the core of their business will be disrupted.

Technology keeps changing faster and faster, and it's nearly impossible to keep up anymore.

David J. Anderson's book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business; it's

a small number of reliable, automated tests are almost always preferable over a large number of manual or unreliable automated tests.

Maxine loves coding and she's awesome at it. But she knows that there's something even more important than code: the systems that enable developers to be productive, so that they can write high-quality code quickly and safely, freeing themselves from all the things that prevent them from solving important business problems.

If we know it's that prone to crashing, why do we need to change it?

Without these self-service Operations platforms, the cloud is just Expensive Hosting 2.0.

However, interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater than in manufacturing.

IT is not just a department. IT is a competency that we need to gain as an entire company.

Gatekeeper, the Facebook feature toggling service.

every Facebook user was part of a massive load testing program, which

High touch marketing requires high tech. But if there's so many of us assigned to these Marketing projects,

For the last decade, like clockwork, new CIOs would come and go every two years. They stay just long enough to understand the acronyms, learn where the bathrooms are, implement a bunch of programs and initiatives to upset the apple cart, and then they're gone. CIO stands for "Career Is Over." And VPs of IT Operations don't last much longer.

Who's been calling you, and what do they want?" I ask, frowning. "Usually it's other it people who are having problems fixing something," he replies, rolling his eyes. "When something goes down, I'm apparently the only person who knows where to go looking.

Chuck Rossi, Director of Release Engineering at Facebook, described, "All the code supporting every feature we're planning to launch over the next six months has already been deployed onto our production servers. All we need to do is turn it on.

our goal is to create fast feedback and fast forward loops wherever work is performed, at all stages of the technology value stream, encompassing Product Management, Development, QA, Infosec, and Operations. This

Every company is a technology company, regardless of what business they think they're in. A bank is just an IT company with a banking license."†

interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater than in manufacturing.

While we're dreaming big dreams here, let me say this," he continues. "In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

We cannot achieve deployments on demand if each of our production code deployments take weeks or months to perform (i.e., each deployment requires 1,300 manual, error-prone steps involving up to three hundred engineers). The countermeasure is to automate our deployments as much as possible, with the goal of being completely automated so they can be done self-service by any developer.

She's often heard that IT is the nerve center of the entire organization, because over the last thirty years almost every business process has been automated through IT systems. But for whatever reason, businesses have allowed their nervous system to become degraded, like multiple sclerosis disrupting the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body.

Bash is the disease you die with, but don't die of.

In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As