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JTs Enjoying the Popcorn

@techsysn8v

Forever trying to tame the complexity dragon. Father, Husband, Enterprise Architect, Learner. Opinions and errors are my own. Successes are due to others

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X : What areas should we invest in to improve farming? Me : Depends upon who you talk to. Talk to analysts and it's industrialisation, robots, decarbonisation, financial management, cheaper fertilisers and regenerative farming ....

Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

that one time Gergely Orosz and I both received the same letter from an engineering manager looking for advice... and both of us answered him, completely independently. 😍 Gergely's -- blog.pragmaticengineer.com/can-you-measur… and mine -- charity.wtf/2020/07/07/que…

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Fundamentally, the point is that we have plenty of evidence to stop blaming regulations and frameworks. It's honestly not their fault. None of them are sufficiently prescriptive that we can pin the blame on them. It's entirely in how we choose to interpret those standards.

Fundamentally, the point is that we have plenty of evidence to stop blaming regulations and frameworks. It's honestly not their fault. None of them are sufficiently prescriptive that we can pin the blame on them.

It's entirely in how we choose to interpret those standards.
Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's in how you invest in your test suite, audit your platforms, and especially in how you architect your code, such that you can deploy what you're working on without having to deploy the entire world. It's bringing security considerations into your architecture from day one.

It's in how you invest in your test suite, audit your platforms, and especially in how you architect your code, such that you can deploy what you're working on without having to deploy the entire world.

It's bringing security considerations into your architecture from day one.
Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your engineering leadership, however -- including directors, VPs, and CTOs -- DOES need to be constantly pressing and holding the line, making the case for real security and not security theater. * on the customer contracts you sign * on how you interpret regulations

Your engineering leadership, however -- including directors, VPs, and CTOs -- DOES need to be constantly pressing and holding the line, making the case for real security and not security theater.

* on the customer contracts you sign
* on how you interpret regulations
Simon Brown (@simonbrown) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A lack of diagrams is one of the reasons that so many teams struggle with creating a technical vision/roadmap, communication, architectural refactoring, onboarding new staff, etc.

Simon Wardley (@swardley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From goal driven to situational awareness, lots to like -> Exploring Strategies Enabled By Microsoft Fabric - endjin.com/blog/2023/08/m…

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dX: There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer. Me: It's like computers on the internet, innit. dX: Eh? Me: It's a joke from my 2010 OSCON presentation ... but it's a joke. Do you have a point?

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Tech debt is the "silent saboteur" holding back organisations. I love that phrase. Every new thing we build today becomes toxic for our future unless we manage it -> x.com/dxctechnology/…

Corey Quinn (@quinnypig) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Last time it was a support vendor, now it’s an employee logging into a personal Gmail account. I love that one slip up brings everything crashing down at Okta. I also like the “service account shared password,” which was presumably “solarwinds123”.

Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social (@allenholub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Simply recording a problem does nothing to get a solution into user/customer's hands. Most backlogs are nothing but records of problems, solutions for which will never be built.

Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social (@allenholub) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a great question. Juca is referring to Donella Meadows' "Thinking in Systems," which is a great book. IMO, learning about systems thinking is critical. We are steeped in systems—systems of work, social systems, we build complex systems. ("Software system" is not a code

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The sign of a good leader is not the pursuit of the perfect but the ability to make the right choice with imperfect information.

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dX : How much will AI reduce IT budgets? Me : See cloud. Not a cent. dX : ? Me : You're in competition with others, any savings from existing activities will be spent on new activities in order to keep up. Your annual IT spend will be the same. Jevons Paradox & Red Queen Effect.

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I spent 20yrs+ discussing the benefits of test driven development. I've spent 2wks learning GT - gtoolkit.com I've learnt so many lessons on how we are doing things wrong. We should have been using example driven development - medium.com/feenk/an-examp…

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Eyebrows raised. Well, it has been 15 years since I sat in a meeting listening to a climate change plan which was "live on Mars" ... I can imagine what horrors appeared in a philanthropy plan ->

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Everyone should be striving for what Allen puts forward as the PO role. Unfortunately, too many orgs haven't gotten this message. Usually because of a) lack of understanding how teams work effectively b) lack of skillsets c) lack of trust d) organizational fiefdoms

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The entire US network is having issues today. It is not just one carrier. These companies are less independent than a lot of people realize:

The entire US network is having issues today. It is not just one carrier. These companies are less independent than a lot of people realize:
JTs Enjoying the Popcorn (@techsysn8v) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Say after me... "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." ... "Working software is the primary measure of progress."

Say after me...

"Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software."
...
"Working software is the primary measure of progress."
Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🙌 and if you'd like a deep dive into why observability 2.0 all but requires a columnar database, you can read one of my all time favorite articles: honeycomb.io/blog/why-obser… it's also a clear, engaging piece of prose introducing you to concepts like indexes and data locality.