Continuous Improvement —4 min read
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How can a team of two work in small batches from different timezones?

Continuous Improvement —2 min read
The lure of local optimizations

Just because you've found the best burger in town, doesn't mean you've found the best burger in the world.

Coding Practices —2 min read
Cleaning out the code cobwebs

A couple anti-patterns I see frequently, and what I do instead.

Continuous Improvement —1 min read
Two things to do when you break the build

I broke the build. Again.

Continuous Improvement —1 min read
What is your fitness function?

How do you know if your actions are leading to better or worse results?

Continuous Improvement —1 min read
It's retro day!

If you find that you can improve the way you're working, don't wait.

Continuous Improvement —2 min read
What I have changed

Here are some of the things I have changed in the last 30 days.

Continuous Improvement —1 min read
What changed?

What have you changed in the last 30 days?

Continuous Improvement —49 min episode
Tiny DevOps episode #47 Paul Cothenet — Observations on observability

Paul Cothenet of Patch.io joins me this time to discuss war stories implementing observabillity at two small startups.

Continuous Improvement —1 min read
Ideals

Don't let the perfect ideals be the enemy of progress.

Continuous Improvement —6 min read
A Look at Atlassian's April 2022 Jira Outage

What lessons can you take from this incident for your own organization?