How to grow your way to enterprise selling
Understanding the difference between products, solutions, and enterprise solutions is critical to tierd business models.
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2023
2021
It’s DevOps all the way down
DevOps teams can’t own a vertical slice of your entire stack, the cognative load is too great. We instead need to thing about layered DevOps teams each ownin...
Designing an engineering distribution model to fit your go-to-market
There is no ‘best’ distribution model for software. Instead you must design your distribution, and your engineering operating model, based on the needs of yo...
2020
Designing an ingeniously simple business
We advocate for simplicity in our software, but incentivise staff to build complex businesses.
The interconnectedness of communications, architecture, and organisational design
Engineering team size can be an important factor in team performance and should be a mindful part of your organisational design.
The four stages of the product lifecycle
How you approach innovation needs to depend on where your products are in their lifecycle.
2014
November iotcam community update
November Cambridge Internet of Things community update
September iotcam community update
September Cambridge Internet of Things community update
Enumerating Makespace #1 - Model Prep
My build log for Enumerating Makespace - a project to demonstrate every piece of equipment in my local hackerspace
A day in the life of Red Gate via MQTT
Using MQTT, RabbitMQ, PhantomJS, Sinatra, and Qswarm to build a tweet printing installation
February Cambridge IoT meetup
Our first meetup of 2014 saw talks from Pilgrim Beart and Patrick Bergel
Hard drive clock
Fun things to do with an old hard drives
Internet of Things kit for hackdays/spaces
Defining a kit for an Internet of Things hackday or hackerspace
Stream support for the Arduino MQTT library
Added the ability to write large payloads to Stream compatible storage
Wearable NeoPixel Bike Lights
A project to make wearable bike lights by embedding Adafruit NeoPixels into a messenger bag
QoS1 added to the Arduino MQTT library
How to use Quality of Service level 1 (guaranteed at least once delivery) in the Arduino MQTT library
2013
Stream processing in Ruby
Introducing Qswarm, a DSL implementing a stream processing agent framework for Ruby
Starting afresh
In my cyclic quest to become a blogger, I’m once again rebooting my blog …