Ann Lewis Discusses the Political Tech Landscape, MoveOn’s Architecture, and Scaling Challenges
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For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role.
Key Takeaways
Political tech is all about reaching people and trying to get them to pay attention to something and take action. The funding for political tech in the United States is cyclic and relatively small, and the corresponding ecosystem is also quite small, making it hard to, for example, bind vendors to specific SLAs.
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Dec 28, 2020 10:58 EST
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With some people, you know exactly what they want for the holidays. But with others, it’s a guessing game every year. If you are struggling for ideas, here are some great stocking stuffers that will delight virtually anyone and they’re currently all under $50 for Hannity viewers.
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