
Where do you find the confidence to release your software?
Think of the time you released software to production...

Which skill is more important: Testing, or debugging?
One of these skills, if you're good at it, diminishes the need for the other other.

What's the ideal ratio of devs to QAs?
Of course, as a consultant, I can confidently tell you: It depends!

I just threw away a bunch of tests
I had failed to complete the "refactor" part of "red/green/refactor" several weeks ago, leaving me with some redundant tests that came back to bite me.
Adventures in DevOps 112: Building Code More Responsibly: A Mental Model Shift
A philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry.

How to travel light
Software delivery is a lot like traveling. Less luggage makes for a better experience.
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How expensive is a bug?
The "observation" that fixing a bug in production costs 1000x more than fixing it during design assumes a waterfall approach.

Do you enjoy finding bugs?
Rather than seeing code review, or QA, as a gatekeeping process, let's frame it as an opportunity to elevate the output of the entire team.