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.
Last few years have turned IT recruitment market into blood-spattered area of gore, violence & ruthless brutality - it's not just that acquiring new talent is hard, expensive & time-consuming: demand keeps raising, so competition gets even more fierce over time. I have observed one interesting side effect...
> "If we make an effort & automate our deployment, running tests, static checks, monitoring, ... basically automate whole delivery pipeline in a proper way (so it really works w/o manual interactions) - how do we preserve the knowledge about HOW it works? After half a year or more,...
I'd like to emphasize once again that I speak on this blog for myself only. Opinions / statements expressed here should not be associated with my employers - past or present. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dish of the day is ... Some buzzwords get "global" range, while some get a...
Do you recognize any of the following scenarios? 1. Continuous influx of requirements put you into permanent death-march - you're always struggling against deadlines, there's never time for refactoring, unit testing, etc. 2. Firefighting is your bread'n'butter - issues pop up on...
Since today, I'd like to make some sort of a change in blog posts published here. New ones are supposed to be shorter (max 400 words), more focused on a single thought, even if it means not covering my full opinion on a given topic. You can also...
This post has been inspired by both the personal experience (some painful lessons learned included) and also bunch of articles on the web, e.g.: one of the most recent ones - https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all want to be the beneficiaries of rapidly...
