Too Busy To Do It Right
DevOps transformations can often become a checklist of tools and processes we need to assemble, like so much Ikea furniture. But DevOps is not a… Read More »Too Busy To Do It Right
Optimizing for Engineering Happiness
The nature of software is a philosophical problem for the ages. How can something seemingly so abstract have such crucial real-world applications? Those lucky enough… Read More »Optimizing for Engineering Happiness
The Successful Platform is a Product
“A platform isn’t always planned. It can be an engineering reaction to an organisational constraint.” I gave a talk this week in Amsterdam about how… Read More »The Successful Platform is a Product
Brazil 1986: State Management by Committee
My favourite ever film is the black comedy and pastiche of Orwellian dystopia that is Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I love the film so much I… Read More »Brazil 1986: State Management by Committee
Thank you, Mr Conway
There is verifiable wisdom in Conway’s Law. The pattern it describes has been accidentally repeated thousands if not millions of times in software projects all… Read More »Thank you, Mr Conway