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5 entries published in May 2012.
Sometimes it’s easy to fall into myopic ways of seeing the world. Let’s talk about my favorite recent example, which is the so called “cowboy developer”. The cowboy developer, the thinking goes, is an organizational…
Read entry“…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” —Melvin Conway Conway’s law is a well known fact of life in technology…
Read entryUntil fairly recently, I thought of devops mostly in terms of various sorts of automation: build, test, deployment, operations and SDLC. And while it’s true that automation is key to devops, I think it’s secondary to…
Read entryI wrote a small library called Kite a couple of years back, based on Michael Nygard’s outstanding book. Currently it has a circuit breaker and concurrency throttle. There are several others I’d like to add. [Update…
Read entryThis could be brogramming. It's not devops. Devops is a big deal nowadays, and there’s a variety of ways people describe it and its benefits. Here we’ll move past the fluffy characterization involving developers and…
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