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...
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...
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 "...
Do you recognize any of the following scenarios? 1. Continuous influx of requirements put you into permanent death-march - you're always struggling against deadlines, there's never time for refactoring, unit testing, etc. 2. Firefighting is your bread'n'butter - issues pop up on daily...
Since today, I'd like to make some sort of a change in blog posts published here. New ones are supposed to be shorter (max 400 words), more focused on a single thought, even if it means not covering my full opinion on a given topic. You can also...
This post has been inspired by both the personal experience (some painful lessons learned included) and also bunch of articles on the web, e.g.: one of the most recent ones - https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We all want to be...
This blog is inspired / provoked by recent article from Code for a living: "Why developers should always be in job-seeking mode" [http://www.stackoverflow.blog/code-for-a-living/why-developers-should-always-be-in-job-seeking-mode] - that's why it makes sense to start...
Roughly 2-3 years ago, we've all experienced the popularity outburst of so-called New Wave of Functional Programming languages. As everyone was rediscovering the FP paradigm ("re-" is important here as actually there were no new concepts, just a re-visit of something well known...
There's a common saying: > The truth will attend to itself. Quite naive one, I'd say. Sadly, it sometimes doesn't work even in the world of IT (supposedly based on scientific & engineering fundamentals), especially near the boundaries between engineering & other disciplines where...
