SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150

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.

Framework 330

Framework Startup Java PHP 330

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. The company recently announced plans to introduce a self-service version of its rich media authoring and ad serving platform.

Advertising 40

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

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 even changed our business model to provide a service based, instead of a traditional ecommerce platform.

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

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.

PHP 40

PHP LAMP Java CTO Hire 40