I recently heard researcher and strategist Simon Wardley say that DevOps was already legacy, and that so was Kubernetes. That blew me away. And while… Read More »Why DevOps and Kubernetes are the New Legacy
Reliably delivering software to your customer requires a great many systems. Some of them could be automated and some of them could be manual. Just… Read More »Why Loose Coupling Is Important with CI/CD Tools
The amount of existing investment made in a software product often puts us off from continuing to support it. Instead, encouraged by a new generation… Read More »The Sunk Cost Fallacy, Fallacy
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… Read More »Is There a U-Turn on Open Source?
We talk about delivery pipelines and CI/CD pipelines so much that you’d think software just gets squeezed out of a tube. Software is not a… Read More »Software isn’t a Liquid
Here’s my take on how a SaaS product trajectory relates to support load and management risk tolerance. It’s my contention that for (say) a “typical”… Read More »The SaaS Product Risk Trajectory
In last week’s episode of the Beyond Coding podcast, Patrick, interviewed Kevin Powell about his approach to creating well-designed CSS solutions. In the interview, Kevin… Read More »Is The Path of Least Resistance Sometimes The Right Choice?
When you’re building a software product it’s easy to get caught up in the mechanics of making something work and making something successful. So what… Read More »Is This The End Of Photoshopping?
Sometimes you don’t realise you’re in an engineering hole, ever. You keep on applying the next fix – be it code, be it a system,… Read More »Sticking Plasters on Sticking Plasters
After you have completed a few projects, you realise that there is something important called “appropriate technology choice”. But, and this is the thing, there… Read More »Do You Have To Use Innovative Technology?