The president of a company consults the company CFO over the main issue: the search for a new CTO. The current CTO is considering quitting and the CEO fears that things have become too centralized during their tenure. The choice is between stealing … Read more
Your life as a Tech Leader
Andrea Majetta hosted a fantastic panel with three tech leaders from a range of backgrounds. The participants’ answers to the questions Majetta tailored to each of them resulted in a well-structured discussion, offering direct answers as well as the … Read more
Avoiding a CTO Meltdown
What is a Meltdown? Meltdown, or breakdown, is an English term that was once used to encompass many mental illnesses. Nowadays it is used to describe a period of intense mental distress that leaves sufferers unable to function in everyday … Read more
Being a Tech Lead: how much tech, how much lead?
Community Management for DevelopersDownload our latest eBook to learn how to build a thriving coding community with no prior experience. We had Codemotion's own community managers and some of our members list down the essential skills, practices and … Read more
How to choose between being a consultant or a developer?
Writing code and work as a software developer is a job that you can either do from inside a company or outside it, by becoming a consultant. In this article we'll outline pros and cons of both the choices. What is a developer? A developer is a … Read more
The Pros and Cons of being a CTO
Becoming the CTO of a company is one of the highest peaks you can possibly climb in your career. There are many different ways to earn this role of course, but it always brings you very close to touching the sky. A CTO stands on the third-highest … Read more
What are programming errors?
Community Management for DevelopersDownload our latest eBook to learn how to build a thriving coding community with no prior experience. We had Codemotion's own community managers and some of our members list down the essential skills, practices and … Read more
You don’t want to code anymore?
Your coder career has reached a turning point? Are you wondering if you should continue coding or not? In this article we put together the many elements that may influence your decisions, to help in choosing the best future working environment for … Read more
AI-driven Conversational User Interface enriched with Search Skills
Today, chatbots are implemented almost everywhere, including many websites. The IBM Watson approach allows us to easily integrate AI features and deploy a web chatbot in just a few hours. In this article, we’ll put this in practice within IBM … Read more
Digital Developer Conference: Cloud-Native Security
Digital Developer ConferenceCloud Native SecurityTaking place on June 24, 25, and July 1 2020, the Digital Developer Conference: Cloud Native Security gives cloud managers the opportunity to develop skills with the leading open-source tools needed to … Read more
What Should a Fresh CTO Do?
Being a CTO is a point of arrival in many career paths. Taking that role inside a 20+, or larger, company is obviously more challenging than starting from scratch in a start-up, but the basics don't change: a CTO is always the trait-d'union between … Read more
What role should the CTO play in the digital transformation process?
Today, most CTOs agree that their role has become twofold, embracing both technical and managerial skills. Looking at the technical standpoint, s/he is the tech visionary leader within a realm other C-levels have no easy access to. That is why CTOs … Read more
From developer to CTO: What is the fastest route?
Most developers, sooner or later, think they are good enough at their job to aspire to a higher career level. The most common goal is to become CTO (Chief Technical Officer). There is almost a 'standard' path to becoming the CTO of an ICT company: … Read more
Call for Code 2020 de IBM: Desayuna y Prometeo
The English version of this post is available below. Click here to read it. IBM 2020 Global Climate Change ChallengeEl cambio climático y el COVID-19 han provocado la mayor crisis de los tiempos modernos. Ahora más que nunca los … Read more
4 different types of Chief Technology Officer
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the key role to drive all internal processes inside the company. A strong CTO is a person who wants to change his/her company, bringing sustainable success in the marketplace. Even better, his/her aim is "a … Read more
Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) uses a high-level descriptive coding language to automate the provisioning of IT infrastructure. This automation eliminates the need for developers to manually provision and manage servers, … Read more
Cloud-native, Containers-based development: Quarkus revamps Java
Explore Cloud Native ComputingOn March 3 2020, IBM held a conference to give developers insights into key technologies required to rapidly build secure applications that can be managed and optimized across multiple cloud providers.If you missed it, … Read more
API Economy: Code + API = Money
We live in an interconnected world whose fabric is wired in software threads. Application Programming Interfaces contribute to this fabric through the optimization of resources such as time and money. Thanks to the sharing of APIs, the full potential … Read more
COVID-19 & Open Source: a Shared Global Approach to Emergencies
Table Of ContentsContact tracing in the worldCentralized and decentralized dataOpen source or not? The Italian Immuni appWork in progress: Protetti, the (open source) appThe NoiApp team's philosophyHelping the global community: the case for BLELimits … Read more
What Skills Should You Still Practice and Hone As a CTO
The CTO is a leader who seamlessly interacts with C-levels, team leaders and other stakeholders. Hence, they must possess skills such as time management and vision, and have very strong ethics. A Chief Technology Officer also must have strong … Read more