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Alex Hudson

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Hi — I’m Alex. I help SaaS teams ship reliable, valuable products faster. As a Portfolio CTO I focus on pragmatic architecture, clear product thinking, and leadership that scales. I partner with CEOs and engineering leaders to remove technical drag—modernise platforms, adopt leading-edge technology safely, and build…

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The “No Code” Delusion

Increasingly popular in the last couple of years, I think 2020 is going to be the year of “no code”: the movement that say you can write business logic and even entire applications without having the training of a software developer. I empathise with people doing this, and I think some of the “no code” tools are…

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It's tough being an Azure fan

Azure has never been the #1 cloud provider - that spot continues to belong to AWS, which is the category leader. However, in most people’s minds, it has been a pretty reasonable #2, and while not necessarily vastly differentiated from AWS there are enough things to write home about. However, even as a user and…