JTs Enjoying the Popcorn
@TechSysN8v
Forever trying to tame the complexity dragon. Father, Husband, Enterprise Architect, Learner. Opinions and errors are my own. Successes are due to others
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Regardless of our assumptions, production is the ultimate test environment. If we accept this, it is worth revisiting how we treat both.
🙌 and if you'd like a deep dive into why observability 2.0 all but requires a columnar database, you can read one of my all time favorite articles: honeycomb.io/blog/why-obser… it's also a clear, engaging piece of prose introducing you to concepts like indexes and data locality.
Along the way, I have thought about using a columnar database —such as @ClickHouseDB or a product like @tinybirdco— for this "4th pillar" (analytics?🤷). Turns out it's not a fourth pillar —it's o11y 2.0 🎉—, and @honeycombio (and FB!) solved it years ago! (2/2)
Say after me... "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." ... "Working software is the primary measure of progress."
The entire US network is having issues today. It is not just one carrier. These companies are less independent than a lot of people realize:
Everyone should be striving for what Allen puts forward as the PO role. Unfortunately, too many orgs haven't gotten this message. Usually because of a) lack of understanding how teams work effectively b) lack of skillsets c) lack of trust d) organizational fiefdoms
The product owner's job is NOT to tell the team how to do its work or what to work on. They "order the backlog" but it's up to the team as a whole to decide "who does what, when, and how." A PO is ***not*** a manager. They tell nobody what to do. Their job is to understand the…
Eyebrows raised. Well, it has been 15 years since I sat in a meeting listening to a climate change plan which was "live on Mars" ... I can imagine what horrors appeared in a philanthropy plan ->
I was told about a new philanthropy plan of a certain famous tech billionaire the other night, and now I am in favor of a 100% wealth tax. I will be taking no questions.
I spent 20yrs+ discussing the benefits of test driven development. I've spent 2wks learning GT - gtoolkit.com I've learnt so many lessons on how we are doing things wrong. We should have been using example driven development - medium.com/feenk/an-examp…
dX : How much will AI reduce IT budgets? Me : See cloud. Not a cent. dX : ? Me : You're in competition with others, any savings from existing activities will be spent on new activities in order to keep up. Your annual IT spend will be the same. Jevons Paradox & Red Queen Effect.
This is a great question. Juca is referring to Donella Meadows' "Thinking in Systems," which is a great book. IMO, learning about systems thinking is critical. We are steeped in systems—systems of work, social systems, we build complex systems. ("Software system" is not a code…
I was told about a new philanthropy plan of a certain famous tech billionaire the other night, and now I am in favor of a 100% wealth tax. I will be taking no questions.
The sign of a good leader is not the pursuit of the perfect but the ability to make the right choice with imperfect information.
Simply recording a problem does nothing to get a solution into user/customer's hands. Most backlogs are nothing but records of problems, solutions for which will never be built.
Last time it was a support vendor, now it’s an employee logging into a personal Gmail account. I love that one slip up brings everything crashing down at Okta. I also like the “service account shared password,” which was presumably “solarwinds123”.
Okta is blaming the recent hack of its support system on an employee who logged into a personal Google account on a company-managed laptop. securityweek.com/okta-hack-blam…
Tech debt is the "silent saboteur" holding back organisations. I love that phrase. Every new thing we build today becomes toxic for our future unless we manage it -> x.com/dxctechnology/…
A global DXC Technology survey revealed that 46% of executives say that #TechnicalDebt is holding them back. Discover with DXC a four-step plan to pay down debt and discourage it in the future. Read the press release: dxc.to/3txGRgu #DXCLeadingEdge
dX: There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer. Me: It's like computers on the internet, innit. dX: Eh? Me: It's a joke from my 2010 OSCON presentation ... but it's a joke. Do you have a point?
From goal driven to situational awareness, lots to like -> Exploring Strategies Enabled By Microsoft Fabric - endjin.com/blog/2023/08/m…
Your engineering leadership, however -- including directors, VPs, and CTOs -- DOES need to be constantly pressing and holding the line, making the case for real security and not security theater. * on the customer contracts you sign * on how you interpret regulations
It's in how you invest in your test suite, audit your platforms, and especially in how you architect your code, such that you can deploy what you're working on without having to deploy the entire world. It's bringing security considerations into your architecture from day one.
Fundamentally, the point is that we have plenty of evidence to stop blaming regulations and frameworks. It's honestly not their fault. None of them are sufficiently prescriptive that we can pin the blame on them. It's entirely in how we choose to interpret those standards.
A lack of diagrams is one of the reasons that so many teams struggle with creating a technical vision/roadmap, communication, architectural refactoring, onboarding new staff, etc.
Because diagrams become obsolete, the moment implementation begins. And no one goes back to make them resemble reality. There were many attempts in the 2000s to sync between diagrams and source, but they all failed. And diagramming fell out of favor.
that one time @GergelyOrosz and I both received the same letter from an engineering manager looking for advice... and both of us answered him, completely independently. 😍 Gergely's -- blog.pragmaticengineer.com/can-you-measur… and mine -- charity.wtf/2020/07/07/que…
Also read the take from @mipsytipsy on whether engineering productivity can be measured: charity.wtf/2020/07/07/que… A reader emailed both of us years back and we both wrote answers to the same question, without even knowing!
X : What areas should we invest in to improve farming? Me : Depends upon who you talk to. Talk to analysts and it's industrialisation, robots, decarbonisation, financial management, cheaper fertilisers and regenerative farming ....
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