If you’ve thought about “how we develop software” at all then you might know that some people consider computer programming to be an art, some… Read More »Software Engineering – the social side of programming
The very best of Continuous Delivery, Agile and Lean tell us that we should iterate quickly in small steps. To iterate quickly, you want to… Read More »Why Wait to Discover Mistakes?
Recently I spoke to Stephen Townsend of the excellent Slight Reliability podcast about monitoring and customer insights in software deployment. We discussed whether building a… Read More »Observability Engineering and Customer Needs with Stephen Townsend
The need for high-quality, secure software is greater than ever. Customers and regulators alike demand speed, confidence, security and accountability in software delivery. Keeping a… Read More »How to Deliver High-Quality Software, Faster without Feature Branches
At the moment, especially in tech, there appears to be so little time to think. Reacting seems to be the order of the day. This… Read More »Building Software in a Post-Agile World
The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim is an outstanding novel which should be instantly recognisable to anyone who has built, deployed or run an IT… Read More »Software Engineering Happiness: The Five Ideals
Following on from some conversations over the last couple of weeks I’ve been pondering whether or not CD has an image problem. To explore this… Read More »Does Continuous Delivery have an Image Problem?
A good podcast to get a no-BS opinion on Agile, DevOps and CI/CD is the Non-Nonsense Podcast. Recently, Brian Finster talked to Murray Robinson and… Read More »Bryan Finster -Continuous Delivery: No Nonsense Podcast
I once had an interaction with a CI/CD fanatic. You know the type – dogmatic and bristling with frameworks, tools and well-formed opinions. I’ve also… Read More »Do You Need CI/CD to be successful at Software Delivery?
There is currently quite a lot of noise about internal developer platforms <<insert obligatory Garter link>> as an aid to ease complexity and smooth the… Read More »Do You Need To Build An Internal Developer Platform?