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"People who are right a lot change their minds often"

"There is no compression algorithm for experience"

Does the software development 'industry' value fluid intelligence disproportionately more than crystallised intelligence? Innovation takes you so far, but then what? Is the imbalance a ticking time bomb?

However they may manifest, it's likely to be the 'dependencies' that are going to get you in the end. Coupling takes many forms.

Better to expend your energy preventing problems occurring in your system, than in solving them.

It's about working in ways that consistently inprove/maintain Quality. Everything else is just burning oxygen.

Prediction of future trend/bandwagon in the software 'guru' space: Claiming you don't follow the latest trend by way of 'boosting' the credibility of your public profile.

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I really do struggle to grasp the perceived benefits of the whole Sprint ceremony thing. Don't really understand why we don't just pick something to work on, crack on with it, then pick the next thing.

Microservices... Smaller image size on disk means quicker to pull from container registry and faster start up time. This reduces deployment overhead and can improve the resiliency of your application.

Cloud adoption is a strategic business decision, not a technical one. Strategise, analyse (qualitative and quantitative), rationalise (re-host, refactor, re-architect, rebuild or replace), plan, upskill etc. Above all, understand the measurable business outcomes you value.

Serverless computing: I want to be your friend. You look good, smell nice and make sense but you've gotta stop arbitrarily kicking me in the face whenever you feel like it. Friends don't do that.

Iterative and incremental are different ways of working

Most digital transformation "failures" end in technological success, but they don't deliver on the initial strategic change that's required to positively affect the business." - Microsoft

You are not "entitled to my opinion" whenever facts you don't like are presented to you.

'technical neglect' is not 'technical debt'

The opposite of trust is controlling-manipulation. Very different working environments and creative problem solving can only flourish in the former?