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.
Roughly 10 months ago I've written [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/web-for-the-impatient-using-the-language-of-the-future/] about the way Babel.js [https://babeljs.io/] (& ES6) has changed web development in such a short time. Let me remind you just my final conclusion: > You don't have to wait anymore, there&...
It usually looks like this: there's already a decision about new product / project, people are extremely happy & eager to start straight away, silently expecting to "do it all perfectly" this time, avoiding all the mistakes from the past. But before they get into actual work,...
There's nothing permanent in software engineering. Consider building services for Internet applications - for the last few years service design principles were quite straightforward: * stateless >>> stateful * sticky session (& session affinity) are made of suck * if you really, really need session, at least make it...
> "Errare humanum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum." (eng. To err is human, but to persist in error (out of pride) is diabolical.) Seneca Now & then I re-visit my own idea / statement / opinion to find out that I totally disagree with it today. Actually I don&...
What's the most popular Agile method these days? 1. FDD? Nah, no-one ever has seen a living FDDer - this method has been made up so there are at least 3 Agile methods on the list ... 2. XP? Another fake - it's just a collection of...
Few weeks ago I've noted down an interesting notion that someone has mentioned during one of the discussions I've participated in: > hedging technology The overall idea is simple, you may recognize it from hedging funds or hedging bets. Hedging technology is expanding your area of...
