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How I Got Promoted: Marques Stewart, VP of Technology at Achievement First

BetterCloud

” At that time, I said, “You know what, I think I really want to become a CIO or CTO.” When I decided I wanted to be a CIO or CTO , I was an associate director or what other companies might call a junior director. I’ve noticed this about software developers, but I also see it in many IT careers.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post). Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

One of the things that you and I talk about a lot is hiring for skill and impact over proximity, right? We’re using digital workflows and storing data in the cloud, but the rest of the world, this was an overnight just shift in how people worked and how they communicated. That’s your basic cloud infrastructure.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That was when a new vision formed beyond the physical classroom to what would later become our cloud, where we can teach anyone anywhere the digital technology skills of the future. That was in 2010, and we committed the company to go big with this cloud-based SaaS business model that would allow us to reach individuals anywhere in the world.

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