A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
Oh yea, I love to classify things - tag them, label them, categorize them. Keep stuff in order. Same applies to people who tend to be more complex than “things”, but nevertheless (even if my pick appears wrong, after some time) I still do classify people. I’ve met hundreds...
Previous episode: http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/62260870845/bakin-bakin-bakin-logging-for-enterprise-scale Where did we stop? As far as I remember we were having some brainstorming about the shape of enterprise-ready large-scale logging solution for IT landscape running several applications for 1M+ users. And we had some kind of a cliffhanger when dealing...
I’ve spent last few days on setting up the nice, pipe-lined solution for enterprise-level logging. It involves few interesting distributed technologies, running on Linux (we’re almost 100% Windows-based here atm), so I’ve decided to give a go to some nice virtualization and provisioning tools - namely: Vagrant...
If you told me six months ago, that in half a year I’d articulate such a statement - I wouldn’t believe. But yes, it’s true - Visual Studio slowly starts to get obsolete on my workstation. What has changed then? Web Dev and VS First, I was...
Story: large, on-line app that servers hundreds of thousands users in the real-time (via web and mobile) has some issues with proper managing events and logs. Logging is centralized (in relational DB), has a SPoF ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure) and its load has an impact...
ABB DevDay 2013 (http://devday.pl/) is over. If you don’t want to read the full review and you just expect a bold statement - here it is: it was awesome. The best .NET (majorly, but not only) dev conference in Poland. By freaking far. Why: 1. Top-notch presenters...
