In this Q&A episode, guest co-host Amando Abreu and I answer listener questions about automatic rollback, how to prepare for an interview, and the meaning of life.

Taylorism has gotten a lot of flack for being inhumane at worst, and ineffective at best. But DevOps is about applying Taylorism to computer systems.

It's easy to find examples of of books and conferences dedicated to "Agile." But Agile has never been the goal.

Many people are confused by the concept of an "MVP". If you wait until your product is lovable, or even complete, you've wasted time you could have been learning.

Without a culture of learning, any agile framework, process, or workflow will stagnate and ultimately fail.

Estimates or no estimates? Unless or until you know why you want an estimate, even a "perfect" estimate is wasted.

How I learned to stop caring about the orderly arrangement of my cutlery rack.

I hear people ask seemlingy good questions, but they often miss a fundamental part: What problem are you trying to solve?

Three reasons that software development teams don't scale well.

Some things that don't scale well: Databases. Dev teams. Monoliths. Microservices.

We've all heard of economies of scale. Some things have diseconomies of scale.