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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. The VP liked what I had to say. Find the gap.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. If not, you can hire consultants. Start with an influential manager you trust and recruit them as an ally. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering. Don’t give up.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog. Egnyte was founded in 2007.