Without resilience, nothing else matters. If your system is not up, and can perform its function, then none of the other qualities matter. twitter.com/joeerl/status/…

It’s amazing how many people seem to think diversity lowers an organization’s performance—the same people who enthusiastically diversify their investment portfolio to improve its performance.

It’s the same math, y’all.

AI will kill coding in the same way that compilers killed coding.

What kind of human language prompts would have sufficient detail, clarity, and precision to permit the creation of useful, evolvable, and maintainable executable assets?

We call those 'programming languages'.

It’s mistakes like this that cause people to lose faith in journalism

One of the most interesting things I've read this year was the research paper by Adam Tornhill that described how organizations waste up to 42% of their time due to technical debt. It's extremely valuable to see a study that quantified the consequences of technical debt.

Great talk here by Randy Shoup 'Large-Scale Architecture: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simplicity'

Talking about modular components, domains, evolution, logs, materialized views and async > sync and much more 🎉

Recommend giving it a watch 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=oejXFg…

There is no royal road to an innovation budget--you have to speak Executive and think Product. Learn more on today's Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Randy Shoup : soundcloud.com/troubleshootin…

This seems like a fine time to look back on the rather decent API platform our team built at Twitter.

Simple approach to dealing with existing technical problems:

1. Add observability so that you can understand the problem deeply.
2. Add test coverage so that you can change quickly and safely.
3. Make the change you believe will address the problem.

People often jump to step 3.

Write tests where you want your module boundaries to be.

Writing them any other place just shifts the boundary — and your modularization.

Want to listen to a bunch of experienced, smart technical leaders talk about engineering success metrics, improving delivery speed, and more?

Terrific InfoQ panel hosted by Randy Shoup, featuring Courtney Kissler, Ann Lewis, Nick Caldwell, and Sarah Wells: infoq.com/presentations/…

The 4 ESSENTIAL Measures For Software Enterprise | Randy Shoup On DORA Metrics & Essential Measures ➡️ youtu.be/BMv8inN3NaM

This is a clip taken from Randy's insightful appearance on The #EngineeringRoom 🎬

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

Really not sure what to do here.

#mixedmessages

Team Topologies has really highlighted the importance of considering Cognitive Load in effective architectures Randy Shoup #does22

Now Available! Randy Shoup says '...provides far and away the clearest, most comprehensive, and most actionable roadmap I have seen for driving, scaling, and sustaining SRE in an engineering organization. I cannot recommend it highly enough!' ow.ly/HoH150KYzUs
#SRE

We just published the opening keynote of #amaberlin on our youtube channel - Randy Shoup - Agility and Architecture Together – Enabling a Fast Flow of Change youtu.be/_CXPDDRn6to

In this first of five posts adapted from the ”Responding to Novel Security Vulnerabilities” guidance paper by Randy Shoup, Dr. Tapabrata Pal, Michael Nygard, Chris Hill, and Dominica DeGrandis, we look at dealing with ongoing threats.

itrev.io/3QX99Xv

What are you waiting for? Head to Vegas #DOES22 I am looking forward to seeing and listening to my #DevOps heroes cc - Gene Kim Better angels playing mystic 9th chords of memory Mik Kersten Jonathan Smart Scott Prugh Jason A Cox Dr. Tapabrata Pal Mirco Hering nathenharvey Steven Spear Randy Shoup many more...

Every few years, I give a 2-day workshop for engineering leaders that I call 'Scaling Organizations and Technology': culture, organization, architecture, development practices, etc.

There are still some slots available on October 27-28 at QCon SF ...

qconsf.com/training/oct20…

Agile Dogma ignores outcomes in favor of slogans and rituals, with often counterproductive results. Being agile means seeing the whole system and understanding *why* we do things. Great 🧵 from a former colleague and one of the best practitioners I know.

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