Big Interview
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..."
"All of this hasn't existed for the CIO or the CTO, and genuinely they've been begging for a platform with the same ability to report back to executives to show the value of their engineers..."
The $8 billion travel group's CTO on building a new API-centric, modular travel platform