Business of Technology

Tracey Welson-Rossman and Ken Rimple, Chariot Solutions•chariotsolutions.com

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Business of Technology #4 – Gilt Groupe CTO Michael Bryzek on Gilt and Open Source

Our fourth interview in the Business of Tech podcast series is with Gilt Groupe's CTO and co-founder, Michael Bryzek. Michael talks with us about a number of topics, including: Early days of Gilt Groupe and adventures in database selection Scaling out with Micro Services on the JVM Traffic patterns, cyber Monday Team ownership of Micro Services Tech management hurdles – eliminate layers and make deploy to production easier Advancing the industry by sharing lessons learned Adoption of Scala and l...

Jan 27, 2014•30 min

Business of Technology #3 – Anita Garamella Andrews on Data Analytics

Anita Garamella Andrews is VP of Client Analytics Services at RJ Metrics. She has spoken about analytics and other topics at ETE 2013, as well as other events. She talks with Tracey and Ken about how analytics has changed with the advent of large quantities of data. Areas of conversation include data quality, the relative choice of metrics and accuracy versus making actionable information available, and the concept of product analysis. The post Business of Technology #3 – Anita Garamella Andrews...

Nov 25, 2013•26 min

Business of Technology #2 – Susan McPherson Corporate Social Responsibility

Susan McPherson has always had a foot in the non-profit world. With a number of years in a board position on Business Council for Peace, and working with Fabian Cousteau to help people to understand the importance of the oceans, but at Fenton, she was able to start helping corporations use tools that NGOs normally bring to advance the public good. Our interview begins by defining Corporate Social Responsibility, discussing how technology companies are adopting CSR missions to both improve the en...

Oct 07, 2013•25 min

Business of Technology #1 – AnnMaria De Mars on using cloud tools for business

Host Tracey Welson-Rossman and I discuss Dr. De Mars’ history in remote working, from when she started by using modems, dial-up and tools like telnet and FTP, and today, with cloud-based services such as Google Apps and Dropbox. A good introduction for those who are not yet using cloud-based tools for their businesses, we discuss some of the unexpected consequences of relying on the cloud, including the fact that it is never a good idea to stop backing up your data! Ken Rimple The post Business ...

Aug 29, 2013•34 min

BizCast #5 – Mobile Application Developer Seminar – Don Coleman on State of the Art

Today’s conference session is a talk from this week’s Mobile Application Developer seminar series, held by Chariot Solutions, in Philadelphia. The talk, “State of the Art for Mobile Application Development”, was given by Chariot’s Don Coleman, who develops both enterprise and mobile applications in a variety of platforms and languages. In this talk, he surveys the current landscape of APIs and platforms, and gives his perspective on where things are today, and where they may be moving to in the ...

Nov 12, 2010•35 min

BizCast #4 – Open Source Project Selection Part 2 with Joel Confino

In Part 1, Joel discussed licensing models. In this episode, Joel and Ken talk about the other criteria in his selection process. Criteria License model Code Quality JavaNCSS – Free tool (and maven plugin) to analyze lines of code / number of methods, MCCabe metrics etc… JDepend – analyzes and checks for cyclic dependencies Runtime Analysis Do a performance test – check CPU, memory, I/O peaks, etc… Design Grade all software by reading the code, checking for code smell, etc. Set a short timebox t...

Jun 17, 2010•32 min

BizCast #2 – KYW NewsRadio’s Steve Butler on Social Media

Steve Butler is the Program and News Director for KYW News Radio, a well-known AM news radio station broadcasting out of the Philadelphia region. The station has adopted social media platforms such as Twitter and podcasting, in order to disseminate news items and provide longer-format content to their listeners. Mr. Butler is interviewed by Tracey Welson-Rossman. The post BizCast #2 – KYW NewsRadio’s Steve Butler on Social Media appeared first on Chariot Solutions ....

Mar 22, 2010•11 min

BizCast #1 – Sean Blanda of TechnicallyPhilly.com

I had a great conversation with TechnicallyPhilly’s Sean Blanda last week. We talked about how the Philly IT scene is still lively, and about how he and his two compadres Brian James Kirk and Christopher Wink gather and write up news on their lively and informative website. Technically Philly covered our Philadelphia Emerging Tech show in the spring. Someone who bikes a lot on the trails in Philly (we have a lot of good road biking trails here) wrote an app to track crime on the trail . Read the...

Jul 17, 2009•17 min

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