Software Delivery Consultancy
Software Delivery Consultancy
Last week I spoke with Tom Kennes, sustainable cloud consultant and ambassador for the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA). We discussed how IT and software delivery can be more sustainable and the energy used when Ronaldo posts on Instagram. We also talked about the impact of programming language choice on carbon footprint, the carbon impact …
A SaaS provides a service to a user via the internet, and people pay money to use it. A SaaS, however, is not seen as a service to the software company that builds it. It’s known internally as a product – or many products. And ironically, that product might itself be built out of microservices. …
One of my favourite podcasts is Maintainable by Robby Russell. I’ve just caught up with the episode with Professor John Ousterhout called “It’s Not You, It’s The Codebase”. A really good listen if you have the time, but if not I’ve summarised below: Reverse engineering – it’s hard, and you can’t really teach it Software …
When a software product first comes out, we often don’t have a delivery pipeline; we often don’t have a backlog full of juicy features to develop. Sometimes we don’t even have a clue where it’s going. We have an idea of what a customer wants, and we build it. When the software is in use, …
I’m lucky enough to be enrolled in the last ever cohort of Seth Godin’s Marketing Seminar. Seth regular encourages his students to “keep leading” and I really love this approach. We’re all leading, all the time. Whether we think it or not, every decision we make, no matter how mundane, is something that someone else …
I love the term software delivery to describe the act of bringing usable software to a customer. The conventional definition, according to software engineering guru Martin Fowler, is as follows: “Software Delivery (describes) the steps from a developer finishing work on a new feature, to that feature being used in production” Thanks to automation and …
Using open-source software in our products reduces development time and allows us to leverage the expertise of others. However, recently there have been concerns about software supply chain and supply chain attacks. What does this mean? Say you’re using a library – npm, Go or python package for example – that comes from a trusted …
Do you find yourself wishing you’d never started a change? Do you ever dread having to go back to some code you wrote years ago? Feel trapped by the legacy software around you? We are not machines. There are deadlines everywhere and we are confronted by terrible decisions that someone else or yourself made earlier …
You can read all the books and take all the courses you want. You can learn all the languages and frameworks there are to learn, but there will always be another that someone just invented. So how do you become the developer that everyone wants to hire? You get good at one thing and you …
You might have heard of James Clear’s Atomic Habits book – you may have even read it. One thing it breaks down for you (pun intended) is how to make differences that will stick. One habit at a time. While this is a generic good tip for everyone, faced with a mountain of bugs and …