Big Interview
The life cycle of tech debt is boom and bust. You buy a lot of equipment, you start moving the cloud; you build tech debt [there too]; then over the next ten years you fund another massive program to get rid of it. We’ve tried to avoid this...
"Ultimately, you're trying to adjust and change big businesses with entrenched ways of working..."
Jim Alkove explains how working on the Xbox improved his security chops and why leaders need to treat their career like a chess game
“I've talked to some of the largest companies in the world who say they budget their data centres in watts not dollars. They’ve got money flowing out of their ears, but they cannot get the power.”
"DevSecOps shouldn't mean that developers have to be security experts. They won't be, they can't be and it is a very bad idea to even have this expectation."
"We have gotten very smart on how to do business with agencies and build in flexibility into our contracting vehicles. We took an approach early on to divide and conquer..."
"During Covid I saw two kids, sitting almost on the footpath outside Starbucks in Dallas, and they were doing their homework on its Wi-Fi. It broke my heart. Not creating a digital divide is super important..."