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.
The way people tend to twist the idea of self-organization & bottom-up team empowerment is both scary & fascinating in the same time. But the amusing part fades away quite quickly when you realize all the inefficiency & impotency that happen as a side effect. One of the most common...
One has to be remain realistic - sometimes even positively hyped, mature, proven ideas with strong foundations can't break into mainstream. That has happened (is happening) for Actor Model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model] (AM) & I believe that quite likely it will stay like this....
Craft Conference [http://beta.craft-conf.com/] is A-MUST-ATTEND on my conference list for each consecutive year. I tend to prefer specialized events (dedicated to particular method / technology / platform), but Craft allures me with its "crafters for crafters" approach - speaker list is totally dominated by engineers & other...
This blog post has been inspired by the following article: Where the hell are all the great senioer software developers and hands-on engineering directors [https://medium.com/@obie/where-the-hell-are-all-the-great-senior-software-developers-and-hands-on-engineering-directors-b88b0d15fbdf] . "You talk like a developer" Let's start with a short story: New dev comes to me as...
Docker [https://www.docker.com/] is The Thing these days. Pretty much everyone has heard about it - how lean, lightweight & useful it is. Most likely you have seen the eye-catchy logo, went through very approachable tutorial, watched some basic demos. But did you try to look through the...
I play a lot with new stuff - frameworks, libraries, tools, whole platforms or languages. Development toys, operations toys, process tooling toys even. And there's a lot of goodies to play with as new ones appear pretty much on the daily basis. I do it because I like...
