SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Of course, I'm not sure that anyone chooses Java alone.

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Framework Startup Java PHP 330

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. But not really CTO events. or focused on industry or type of company.

Southern California 150

Southern California Software Development Software Develop 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

Important Implications Well I'm currently working with startup founders on their systems in JRuby, Django, PHP and Java. I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

Framework 175

Framework Web PHP EC2 175

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java. Java as a platform wasn't ready to deliver on client side. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

What people are really asking is “why not X” where X can be anything but a Microsoft technology. This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java. All startups in the history were developed using the technologies that the CTO knew and liked. Startups rarely fail because they used one technology vs. another.

LAMP 45

LAMP PHP Java CTO Hire 45

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

As a hiring manager, and as the former CTO of Buy.com, Navid Nobakht , Co-Founder of Recmnd.Me ([link] had a problem--how to really figure out if someone he was hiring could actually execute. We then create a sorted and ranked list, based on those scores. I can then see who are the top rated people for that position.

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 14, 2008

What people are really asking is “why not X” where X can be anything but a Microsoft technology. This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java. All startups in the history were developed using the technologies that the CTO knew and liked. Startups rarely fail because they used one technology vs. another.

LAMP 40

LAMP PHP Java CTO Hire 40