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.
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 daily...
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...
This blog is inspired / provoked by recent article from Code for a living: "Why developers should always be in job-seeking mode" [http://www.stackoverflow.blog/code-for-a-living/why-developers-should-always-be-in-job-seeking-mode] - that's why it makes sense to start...
Roughly 2-3 years ago, we've all experienced the popularity outburst of so-called New Wave of Functional Programming languages. As everyone was rediscovering the FP paradigm ("re-" is important here as actually there were no new concepts, just a re-visit of something well known...
There's a common saying: > The truth will attend to itself. Quite naive one, I'd say. Sadly, it sometimes doesn't work even in the world of IT (supposedly based on scientific & engineering fundamentals), especially near the boundaries between engineering & other disciplines where...
