Adventures in DevOps 126: Personal Branding as an Engineer
The importance of personal branding as an engineer, plus tactical strategies you can implement today.
When "Working software" is NOT a good measure of progress
Software is like surgery. Nobody wants surgery.
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Is "Working software" really the primary measure of progress?
If the goal is to uncover better ways of developing software then, well, yeah.
Do you monitor deployments?
I've seen a broken deployment go unnoticed for several hours before being fixed. No more!
The biggest challenges of incremental software delivery
Incremental/iterative software development challenges many of our deeply-ingrained assumptions about efficiency and control.
Why "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything" is (usually) BS
I'd rather see a conversation about planning, rather than ending debate with a cheap quip.
Adventures in DevOps 125: The Pull Request Paradox with Yishai Beeri
Yishai Beeri of LinearB discusses strategies to improve flow of PRs and code review with smarter tooling.
Stupid config trick: Passwords as URLs
How can we unambiguously represent a password safely for shell, YAML, JSON, etc, and also know if it needs to be unescaped?