So the other day I’m sitting around reading about geeky technical stuff (as I am wont to do) and come across an interesting synthesis of thoughts that can combined in a fascinatingly gestalt-ish way. I’m reading about the history of microservices and service oriented architectures, and how the original thinking for them evolved from a […]
As a technical manager and leader, a great deal of your responsibility is to mentor, coach, encourage, and grow people. Accomplishing tasks and moving projects forward is indeed important, but you need to make sure that you are taking care of people. But in order to do this you need to have a toolbag full […]
I’m sure many of you have heard of the famous Google 20%. This is the concept that Google engineers are allowed to spend 20% of their time on whatever they want. The idea is that many of the company’s most innovative and disruptive initiatives come from such a policy, and it also helps with employee […]
Several times in my career, I have missed deadlines, delivered buggy solutions, or otherwise had failures and setbacks with my engineering efforts that weren’t really my fault. In two specific cases, unknown bugs were discovered in third-party vendor products in edge cases, and the bugs trickled up into our products in a customer-facing way. So […]
Some days, when I sit down at the keyboard to write or work, I just can’t get going. My mind is blank, or fuzzy, and I just can’t focus, and can’t think of what I’m supposed to actually do next. Some days, when I’m coding or immersed in technical work, there comes a time during […]
I’ve talked before about how security doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, if approached correctly the basics can be easy. Let’s start with the most basic of all. Patching. I’ve compiled a list of articles, linked at the bottom of this page, but I’ve read several times that, surprisingly, one of the number one […]
As I’ve talked about before (and everyone already kind of knows), good requirements are a key driver to success. To put it simply, you need to know what problem you are trying to solve for your customer, what your end user really wants, and what they are expecting you to build. It’s all about Expectation […]
