Category: CTO Breakfast

  • CTO Breakfast Notes for January 12th, 2024

    CTO Breakfast Notes for January 12th, 2024

    Another year and another great CTO Breakfast Discussion! Here are the topics that came up: Early days of Modems and Bulletin boards and 1200/2400 baud modems. https://www.auvik.com/franklyit/blog/history-of-the-modem/ Early days of Arpanet, Internet in Utah. https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/birth-of-the-internet/ Early days of WordPerfect and Novell. https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/14/23590975/4th-node-podcast-arpanet-tech-history-novell-wordperfect-bill-gates Dr DOS – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS Early databases vs Lotus 123 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3 Early Oracle…

  • CTO Breakfast Notes for December 1st, 2023

    CTO Breakfast Notes for December 1st, 2023

    Another great “Geeks on a Train” event with breakfast in SLC. Here are the topics we discussed. Domain driven design book by Eric Evans – https://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1G7J71C81AR5E&keywords=Domain+driven+design+book&qid=1704164790&sprefix=domain+driven+design+book+%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc AWS reinvent conference – https://reinvent.awsevents.com/on-demand/ AWS Bedrock – https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/ AI image water marking – https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-watermarking-issues/ AI MEMORY Promptings Killed by Google  website – https://killedbygoogle.com/ Discussion around early internet directory…

  • CTO Breakfast Notes for November 10th, 2023

    CTO Breakfast Notes for November 10th, 2023

    We had a really great CTO Breakfast discussion this month. Come join us on the first Friday of the month for breakfast. The next CTO Breakfast is our annual “Geeks on a Train” event. See the Slack channel for details. You can sign up for the email list on the website (https://ctobreakfast.com/) to get notified…

  • CTO Breakfast Notes for October 6th, 2023

    CTO Breakfast Notes for October 6th, 2023

    Another great CTO Breakfast discussion this month. Come join us on the first Friday of the month for breakfast. You can sign up for the email list on the website (https://ctobreakfast.com/) to get notified of future breakfasts. Can’t make it? Join us on the Slack channel. (Details on the website) The topics for October included:…

  • CTO Breakfast Notes for Sept. 8th, 2023

    CTO Breakfast Notes for Sept. 8th, 2023

    Another great CTO Breakfast discussion this month. Come join us on the first Friday of the month for breakfast. You can sign up for the email list on the website (https://ctobreakfast.com/) to get notified of future breakfasts. Can’t make it? Join us on the Slack channel. (Details on the website) The topics for September included:…

  • CTO Breakfast Notes for August 4th, 2023

    So I’ve been attending the CTO breakfast for the last 20+ years. Phil Windley over at windley.org started it years ago, and it’s probably my favorite group of technologists on the planet. It consists of a pretty diverse set of CTOs, VPs, and Technophiles discussing topics from embedded programming, to massive SaaS architecture, to Computer…