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For Meggie: Headspring Healthcare CEO, Walt Hauck, shares the story of his “Why”
I am truly excited to be a part of Headspring, not only as COO, but now as President of Headspring Healthcare. Headspring is a strong advocate of the stakeholder model, which means we evaluate all decisions based on the value they will create for one or more of our...
Remote opportunity leads to real possibility: Q&A with Headspring Mexico’s new hire Eduardo Beltran
For some people, a “dream job” is related to a particular job function, role, or passion. For others, it’s more about an ideal work environment, a crew of colleagues that supports you, a mission that motivates you, or simple everyday satisfaction. At Headspring,...
Why CIOs should embrace a Business-led IT: Q&A with Ed Benson
The role of the technology leader is changing: Evolving business demands have created new challenges and opportunities for IT leaders to elevate their roles within the business. Ed Benson is one of those technology leaders who has taken ownership of his own career...
Managing change during modernization w/ our client Travelers Insurance
Software modernization is fundamentally about change—which can be exciting to change leaders and IT advocates. But software doesn’t stand on its own: It’s created, maintained, and used by teams of people throughout your organization, and those people have real limits...
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Effective microservices communication and conversation patterns [DDD Dallas]
Orchestration or choreography? Sagas or process manager? REST, RPC, or events? Are we just making this all up as we go along? Microservices introduce significant complexities the moment we move away from a single service and process to multiple ones. Immediately, the...
Four types of CIOs and the challenges they face today
When we talked about the unique challenges facing businesses today, we emphasized the important role technology leaders have to play. They hold the keys to what businesses need to weather changes in the market, technology, communities, and the economy. They are...
How Enterprise Agility presents both challenge and opportunity for IT leaders today
When we look at models for technology adoption, Moore’s Law comes to mind as seminal. Moore’s Law posits that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years, while the cost of computers halves. This has been extrapolated to mean that,...
Distributed tracing made easy in .NET Core (NDC Sydney)
When something goes wrong in a single application, you normally get a nice stack trace. But when something goes strong in a distributed system, you get almost nothing! You could add some logging, but then you have to comb through those logs to understand what led to...
Successful Epic integrations for healthcare systems involve these 3 considerations
Electronic Health Record systems (EHR) are the digital version of a patient’s paper charts that get shared among care providers. They’ve become the standard in the healthcare industry for recording and managing a patient’s medical history, laboratory...
The 5 digital transformation pillars
Digital transformation has gone into hyperdrive—thanks in large part to the recent pandemic. As consumers, we’ve been pushed towards ordering food through apps, shopping online, and utilizing digital services. As businesses, we’re finding new ways to operate remotely...
Considerations for your cloud-native architecture strategy: How hard should you buy in?
Are your current systems bogged down by vendor lock-in? Maybe your company is starting down a software modernization path with a goal of becoming cloud-native? As we move away from vendor-plagued solutions of the past, we may be surprised to discover a new kind of...
Building a team of leaders
Hi, I’m Ben. I’ve been in software since 2004, but only recently have I begun transforming software development teams. I want to tell you all about it—from objectives to implementation—but first, I’ll give you a brief history of my experience with sports teams, which...
