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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Henrik Warne
JULY 27, 2019
What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff.
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Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 14, 2019
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
Martin Fowler
MAY 29, 2019
A common debate in software development projects is between spending time on improving the quality of the software versus concentrating on releasing more valuable features.
Everything You Need to Know About the 4 Stages of Software Reliability
OverOps
JULY 9, 2019
FYI – The maturity model presented in this post is based on the concept of Continuous Reliability, which you can read more about here.
Production Excellence: Practical Lessons from Site Reliability Engineering
Speaker: Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io
Modern software organizations build increasingly complex distributed systems with many moving parts. As senior software leaders, we often struggle with noisy alerts, grumbling between Dev and DevOps, slow incident resolution and many other related pain points. It’s hard to figure out what to do with this increasingly difficult problem, yet it’s clearly our responsibility to deliver features and production quality. We are excited to be joined by Liz Fong-Jones, who has a deep understanding of what it takes to implement SRE-type practices in many different kinds of organizations. She brings together a picture and set of practices under the umbrella of Production Excellence that provides a clear and practical plan for senior software leaders.
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
Coding Horror
MAY 30, 2019
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot … fatter.
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Addressing The Elephant: And Why Most Conflicts In Teams Are Invisible
Scrum.org
JULY 22, 2019
Conflicts are fascinating. Now, this may be the organisational psychologist in me talking, or the facilitator who senses them in the groups I work with. But the other part of me dreads them. They scare me. They make me anxious.
The Magic of Small User Stories
Agile Alliance
JULY 22, 2019
I often run into teams that likes big User Stories. Why spend time writing, planning, and estimating a bunch of small stories when you can write, plan, and estimate just one big story? Bigger stories mean better efficiency, right? Not necessarily. Why smaller stories?
Objective and Key Results Implementation from Top to Bottom Overview
Evolution4all
MARCH 11, 2019
Objective and Key Results Implementation from Top to Bottom Overview. To properly implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), it is important to understand how this whole process works.
5 Questions to Ask Remote Web Developers
DevOps.com
MARCH 5, 2019
Great web developers are waiting to be hired. Your company could seize upon the opportunity—but only if you’re willing to be patient, dedicated and a little creative. Don’t scare away qualified remote web developers with a few poorly worded questions or a mistimed probe.
Organizing for Customer Centricity
Speaker: Tatyana Mamut, Head of Product, Nextdoor
Most companies today say they are “customer centric.” Yet many still make decisions primarily based on competitor threats, technical architecture, or executive opinions. So what sets apart those that talk the talk, and those that walk the walk? Join Nextdoor's Head of Product Tatyana Mamut, PhD as she outlines the 7 habits of truly customer-centric companies.
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How to Fully Maximise the OKR Benefits for Your Company
Luis Goncalves
JANUARY 21, 2019
Maybe you’ve heard about OKR in an executives-only grapevine. You heard other guys saying they’re having lesser headaches with their teams. Maybe you heard that everyone in Company A is breaking their performance score after many years of stalling the company’s growth. The culprit behind, OKRs.
Programming: Math or Writing?
Henrik Warne
MARCH 30, 2019
Is programming like math, or is it like writing? I think there are elements of both in it, even though programming is a discipline of its own. Nevertheless, it is interesting to think about what aspects are like math, and what aspects are like writing.
Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people
Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Since I started building up a tech team for Better , I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it.
Micro Frontends
Martin Fowler
JUNE 10, 2019
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the microservices architectural style, which has become popular due to its ability to allow customer-oriented teams to build and deploy software independently.
The 5 Levels of Analytics Maturity
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Basic dashboards used to be enough to thrill end users. But over time, modern capabilities have emerged—and bare-minimum features are no longer cutting it. How have analytics changed? And where do your BI offerings fall short? Find out sophisticated ways to future-proof your application. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
Continuous Reliability: How to Move Fast and NOT Break Things
OverOps
JULY 1, 2019
Development and IT Ops teams commonly find themselves in a game of tug-of-war between two key objectives: driving innovation and maintaining reliable (i.e. stable) software. To drive innovation, we’re seeing the emergence of CI/CD practices and the rise of automation.
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer
Coding Horror
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM. modern, fast dual core CPU. speedy solid state drive with 20G+. I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications.
6 cybersecurity revelations from the redacted Mueller report
The Parallax
APRIL 18, 2019
From the earliest moves by Russian hackers to influence the 2016 U.S.
Sprint Planning with Kanban
Scrum.org
JUNE 15, 2019
"When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established." - Bryant H. McGill.
Walk a Mile in Your Customer's Shoes
Speaker: Steven Haines, Founder and CEO, Sequent Learning Networks
Product professionals use phrases like "voice of the customer," and "user experience" so often that it can be easy to lose sight of their actual meanings. How can we, as product professionals, learn to keep customers and users at the heart of our work? Join Steven Haines, globally recognized thought leader and author, as he guides us through a memorable journey demonstrating how you can walk a mile in their customer's shoes. He'll explore how, by developing true empathy for your users, you can ensure you're creating the features and products they actually want.
Daily Scrum: Is it a Waste of Time?
Agile Alliance
JUNE 24, 2019
Daily Scrum? It’s a waste of time and interrupts my work. Daily Scrum is just a chance for the Scrum Master to show up and micromanage. Daily Scrum is for reporting status, but I could do that in an email. Do any of these complaints sound familiar?
Designing Better Processes to Get Things Done
NeverFriday
MARCH 10, 2019
The Rudolf Podcast is a podcast by Rudolf Olah covering technology, leadership, project management, web development and more. Transcript. Hey there listeners! Welcome to the latest episode of the Rudolf Podcast!
How OKR Works: A Beginner’s Guide
Evolution4all
MARCH 2, 2019
In this article, we will explain how OKR works. Objectives and Key Results ( OKRs ) is a phenomenal goal setting framework that many organisations utilise. It’s a simple, easy, straightforward and results-driven system.
How OKR Works: A Beginner’s Guide
Luis Goncalves
JANUARY 21, 2019
How OKR works? OKR is a phenomenal goal setting framework that many companies swear by. It’s easy and simple. Very straightforward and is results-driven. Google, Intel, Amazon, Spotify and many other leading brands have been using it for many years.
Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
Applications and innovations in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
MARCH 5, 2019
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated devices that have unique identifiers and can autonomously transfer data over a network. IoT ecosystems consist of internet-enabled smart devices that have integrated sensors, processors, and communication hardware to capture, analyze, and send data from their immediate environments. IHS Technology predicts that there will be over 30 billion IoT devices in use by 2020 and over 75 billion by 2025.
Data architecture vs backend architecture
Erik Bernhardsson
JANUARY 9, 2019
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk data copying, and much more. What generally pushes things into the data platform is (generally) that a number of things are.
Technical Components of CD4ML
Martin Fowler
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Our authors now move on to the technical components that make Continuous Delivery possible for a Machine Learning system. The first two are "Discoverable and Accessible Data" followed by "Reproducible Model Training". more…. skip-home-page
Static vs Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them
OverOps
AUGUST 19, 2019
What’s the difference between static and dynamic code analysis, and how do you know which to use? Let’s start with a sporting analogy to help illustrate the difference between these two methodologies.
How To Take Action on Customer Discovery
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
We all want to build successful products - and that means satisfied customers. Before anything else, you must understand what problems you can solve. The best way to do that is to get out of the building and start asking questions. But how can you make the most of those conversations, and ensure that you walk away with productive insights? Join Nick Noreña, educator, entrepreneur, and currently Innovation Coach and Advisor at Kromatic, as he covers how we can effectively action our findings from customer discovery conversations.
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