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.
Don't tell me you haven't seen these job ads: > * "Looking for Test Automating Engineer. Required skills: Gherkin, Cucumber & Spock Framework." > * "Offering a position for Test Automation Architect, 3+ years of front-end web application test automation required." > * "Open...
August 2015 > Me: Hey dude, how's it going? Whatcha doin'? Dude: Playing with Docker, cool stuff. Sniffing around, trying to figure out things. December 2015 > Me: Hey dude, how are things? Doin' anything interesting lately? Dude: Playing with Docker, neat thing. Hard to grasp,...
I've recently read Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team [https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Lencioni-ebook/dp/B006960LQW] - widely recognized classic on leadership & executive management. I'm not going for a full review here (you can easily find my review on Goodreads), but I want...
This blog post is some sort of a supplement to my previous post on building teams organically - you can find it here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/growing-your-team-organically/]. As we all know, software developer job market is terribly twisted by huge disproportion between demand (crazy) & supply (barely dripping). Huge...
There's an interesting trend of expanding the range of work products developers produce as the outcomes of their work. In software development prehistory it was just functional code (one that's supposed to provide business value directly). After some time automated tests have joined it - as...
Disclaimer: the idea of immutable code ain't mine - I've read/heard about it somewhere (can't recall precisely ;/) some time ago & it sticked with me. Code maintenance is already a huge problem & it won't get any better by itself. Software...
