By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Cloud cost optimization is an architecture problem first, because how data moves, what runs idle, how long logs live, and where services split set a cost floor that no discount or rightsizing tool can get beneath. Tools trim the top of the bill. The design decides … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 Idempotent API design means a client can safely resend the same request, by accident, timeout, or automatic retry, and the server guarantees it only happens once. That guarantee has to survive the network doing something ugly, which, statistically, it will. The alert didn’t say duplicate charge. … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 SOC 2 compliance changes four things for engineering teams day to day: every production change needs a documented approval trail, access reviews become a recurring calendar item, logging can’t get switched off to chase a bug, and someone owns evidence collection as a real job. That’s … Read more
A blended workforce model combines full-time employees with contractors, consultants, and project-based specialists so a company can staff for both its permanent workload and its temporary spikes. Budgeting one takes two numbers most finance teams don’t track side by side: the fully loaded cost of an FTE and the all-in bill rate of a contractor. … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia AI governance for a mid-market company is a short written standard that says which tools people may use, on which data, and who checks the output before it reaches anyone outside the room. It fits on one page. Companies get this wrong by building a committee first and writing … Read more
By Kris Drouet, Engineering Executive, in partnership with KORE1 An incident review changes behavior when it ends with three things: a written timeline of what people actually knew, action items carrying a named owner and a date, and no defendant. The rest of the template exists to make those three things happen. I wrote a … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 CISO interview questions in 2026 should test disclosure judgment, spending under a flat budget, third-party exposure, and one incident the candidate read wrong. Strategy questions no longer separate anybody. Every finalist has that answer polished. Look at the published question lists and you find the same six … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 CTO interview questions in 2026 should test the arithmetic of the engineering org a candidate ran, one architecture decision they got wrong, and how they measured whether AI shipped anything. Vision questions separate nobody now. Every published list asks the same four things. Describe your technology vision. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 CIO interview questions in 2026 should test budget defense, AI value realization, board communication, and one real incident the candidate owned. Vision questions are theater. Every serious finalist has rehearsed that answer twice this month. The published lists all ask some version of the same five things. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 An AI/ML org chart works when the ratios do: roughly one platform engineer per three modelers, one data engineer per two, and no more than eight people reporting into any single lead. Argue about the rest of it all you want. Those three numbers hold, and the … Read more
