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.
So far I had a quite straightforward approach to regular vacation: 2 weeks in summer, 2-3 days in winter holiday season (to fill the eventual gap between X-mas & NY) & ... that was all. There was always so much to do & I have never felt a particular need to...
The subject of 10x engineers [http://www.quora.com/10X-Engineers] & their existence is back. Again. It's just the nicknames that change: * rockstar programmers * cowboy programmers * 10x engineers Personally I thought that's not much to be said beyond what Scott Hanselman did here [http://www.hanselman....
No-no-no, don't panic. This is not going to be a very personal blog post. It will still be a summary though - a short list of what worked & what didn't work in 2014 - but I promise, I'll focus on professional stuff, avoiding...
Some time ago, an interesting article has been published in Harvard Business Review - "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" [https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century/]. Some have nodded politely, some had a bit of laughter - very few treated it seriously. Ironically, it seems...
Straight to the point On-line software services are everywhere: I do shopping, check map / route / timetable, order food, communicate, do financial operations, read books / news, watch movies, listen to music, play games - ALL OF THAT thanks to on-line software via Internet. It all looks like sci-fi movies coming to...
Microservices [http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html] (as a topic) are alive & wiggling. I assume you know what they are about & you've got some clue about the substance of criticism that has hit them. I'm not really that much interested in MS as such,...