Lizzie Zabojnik

The Evolution of Native Terminals and IDE's with Terminals: How We Talk to Computers

Full article Before Computer Terminals and IDE's (Integrated Development Environment) In the 1960s, computers were enormous, extremely expensive machines (like room-sized refrigerators that cost millions in today’s money). Only big organizations like universities, governments, and large companies could afford them. NASA had the entire first floor

Riding Towards to Goal as a Team or Playing Catch Up

Full article In today’s fast-moving business world, how teams work together when creating something new can turn a good launch into a great one. The old-school “build it and hand it off” approach between teams and departments often leads to headaches, misunderstanding, and incomplete information. But when

From Garages to Glass Towers: How Tech Culture Ate Itself

Full article There's a particular kind of mythology that Silicon Valley loves to tell about itself. You know the one — two guys in a garage, soldering iron in hand, fueled by pizza and borderline reckless ambition, building something that changes the world. It's a good story.

Unlocking Success from the Ground Up: How Bottom-Up Feedback Transforms Businesses Like Burberry

Note from author: When I was working my first job at 18 years old, I heard about how Burberry had transformed their business and basically brought it back to life, making it relevant again by doing something that was mostly unheard of at the time (in the early 2000'

When the Stakes Are High, So Is the Need for Rigorous Team QA Testing: Lessons from the Apollo Program and the Saturn V Rocket

Full article In the race to the Moon, NASA faced one of humanity’s most audacious engineering challenges. The Saturn V rocket—the most powerful launch vehicle ever built at the time—stood taller than a 36-story building and generated 7.5 million pounds of thrust from its five

Lessons From Apollo | Don't Rush Forward

Why Inbound and Outbound Traffic Is No Joke

Full article You wouldn't let just anyone walk through your front door, and you certainly wouldn't let your kids broadcast your home address to every stranger on the street. So why would you treat your internet network any differently? For commercial buildings, data coming in and

DevOps: An Example of Better Together

The Revolution That Made Shipping Software Actually Work There's a before-and-after moment in software history, and its name is DevOps. Before DevOps, shipping software was a blood sport between developers who wanted to move fast to write and test the code and operations teams who wanted

The Integration Revolution

Full article: How Integrations between softwares are Providing Even More Value to Customers Than Ever Before In today's hyper-connected digital world, no software stands alone. The days of buying a single, monolithic program to handle one specific task or type of tasks are fading fast (or already