Sebastian Gebski

Sebastian Gebski

Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.

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The Art of Packaging

If I one day decide to write a tech book (what kind of stupid idea is that? :>), it’ll definitely be a package manager related one … Obviously, I’m kidding here, but keeping in mind all the "perilous adventures" and "breathe-taking twists" I’ve (and...

Understanding a leader role. For real.

That’s just sad - I keep having the same observation once in a while: > Leaders that have already built some kind of position keep siloing the knowledge, power and initiative while blocking any decision-taking process in the same time. What does it mean? Let me quote some typical...

The death of delivery centers

I’ve seen another praise of software delivery centers recently - how efficient and cheap they are, how easily you can deal with your problems by outsourcing your software development to India or another Asian cheap labor paradise. Sure you can, if you’re in a need of crapware. Don’...

The importance of slack

All the “theorycrafting” below is based on my own experience and things I’ve read that belong to different methodologies or practices. You can recognize some of that as elements of Scrum / Kanban or something else, but there’s no guarantee I use official / mainstream terminology. Why? Because I like...

Don't suck, give feedbacks

During my professional career I had met many managers - some of them were good, some were pretty bad, some are still a question mark for me, but if you asked me about something the most common ("denominator"), there’d be only one response: 95% of them had...

.NET - besieged city report?

If anyone asked me about the future of .NET precisely a year ago, I’d surely answer that it’s as bright and shiny as possible. Constantly improving modern development language (C#), best IDE on the market (regardless of platform - Visual Studio). But a lot has happened within last...

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