Every week we feature conversations with the CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and technology leaders shaping enterprise technology, along with founders and executives at startups building the tools they rely on.
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When Jay Kreps was working at LinkedIn in 2010, the industry was just beginning to grapple with what at the time was being called big data. How could you reliably move massive amounts of event data — user activity, system logs, operational metrics — between a growing number of internal systems in
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In 2024, Chen Goldberg left a prestigious role at Google as GM and VP of engineering for the Kubernetes and serverless portfolio after more than eight years at the company. It took a bold new challenge to compel her to make such a change, and she found it at neocloud
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Twilio was founded in 2008 to solve a telecom problem using software. If developers could tap into communications APIs, they could start creating software that disrupted the biggest telecommunications companies by putting previously expensive and rare capabilities into the hands of just about anyone who knew how to code. With
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Even if we never reach the mythological one-person $1 billion startup, it's clear that AI coding tools have helped accelerate the software development process, making that part of startup building faster, cheaper and more efficient than ever before. But just because you can code faster, doesn'
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Last week at HumanX, I heard a lot about AI, some hype, and some more practical, but however it's presented, it's undeniable that AI is driving changes across every company and industry. I spoke to PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, who told me how it’s forcing
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CrowdStrike's Elia Zaitsev spent a decade at the company before being promoted to CTO in 2023, just months after ChatGPT's debut. It was a pivotal moment for his career and for the broader technology landscape. He understood the magnitude of the shift and how generative AI
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When you think about a company the size of Amazon, the idea of one person being responsible for everything from the locks on the doors to cybersecurity and employee safety might seem absurd. Yet that's exactly what the company decided to do. That person is CJ Moses, who
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Cassie Crossley has literally written the book on software supply chain security. She was previously VP of supply chain security at Schneider Electric and is currently CEO and co-founder at a stealth AI cybersecurity startup. She understands supply chain risk as well as anyone, and she believes that AI-
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Tien Tzuo has been around SaaS for much of his professional career, joining Salesforce as employee #11 in 1999, the year the company launched. He later founded Zuora, a SaaS subscription management and billing platform. He understands SaaS as well as anyone, so when he says SaaS companies need to
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Cisco was founded 41 years ago as a network equipment company. While it has dipped into a number of other technology areas over the years through an aggressive acquisition strategy, its core networking mission has remained steady — even as networking itself has evolved from TCP/IP to Ethernet to WiFi
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We keep hearing how AI agents are going to dominate in the enterprise, but so far the hype has not matched the reality. In part, that’s because implementing AI agents is complex, and many companies are struggling to build them at scale. Enterprise software companies like ServiceNow have been
When Kristie Grinnell stepped in as CIO of TD Synnex, a global IT distributor, earlier this year, she arrived just as AI was reshaping the way every organization operates. She needed a clear picture of where the company was and where it needed to go, so she kicked off her