TL;DR: Projects ask teams do what is asked of them; Products ask teams to invent their work. This requires a different way of seeing the world, and not everyone can do it yet. Software is not an up-front investment that pays off over its use. Software is an ongoing concern, an intricate piece of a …
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What is happening in production? Distributed tracing can help you find out. But it’s one thing to instrument, another to use it. Here’s a short (6m) video that asks “Why is this so slow?” See three quick ways to get answers in Honeycomb. If you want to follow along and play with the same data …
Just now, Avdi had a miserable experience buying curtains. He went to pick up an order that he placed last night, but Lowe’s didn’t have it. The order was sent to the wrong store and it was a huge pain to figure out. Software is hard to get right. And every time we don’t, customers …
This is a keynote, first for DDD xChange 2021. Video: Keynote: The Best of Everything in DDD (Domain-Driven Design eXchange 2021) – YouTube Abstract In the last decade, I’ve journeyed through OOP, functional programming, TDD, microservices, DevOps, etc etc etc. They all have their crucial contributions to how we write software, but one stands at …
If ya know how to do it, stick with the bureaucracy. If you’re building software, it’s always new — you need a generative org with a resilient structure.
Here’s my keynote for 2021, a sequel to Camerata. Follow this link to the video, abstract, and references over at: systemsthinking.dev.
Sometimes the obvious, default API is never what you want. That’s when you have to memorize the “do things right” flag. For yargs, the command-line argument parser for Node.js, specify options and subcommands like this: There. Next time I can cut and paste this instead of scouring the internet for how to make yargs do …
No one wants to review pull requests. This is a sign of a deeper problem than “people aren’t following the process”
Why dig into problems that you could work around? Three reasons: one about my work, one about the team, and one about me.
Batching work is more efficient … until cost rises nonlinearly with batch size. Then smaller batches are the most efficient. So don’t delay maintenance!