If you don’t have a baseline, you don’t know where you are starting from. If you don’t know where you are starting from, you can’t create a plan because whatever plan you come up with will be based on something that may or may not exist or may or may not be correct. Baselines set the foundation from where we start, they are ground zero and they are the point from which we move forward…
Good Architects find the bad in a design that you might be in love with and perfectly aligns to your comfort design. They look at what you’ve done and show you where it could fail and point out gaps you might have missed. They are the second set of eyes that raises the game of your code and ensures you are learning new things all along the way. In short, they ensure quality is delivered,…
Automated code will break. It will break because something that it is supposed to work with broke, something that it expected to be there is no longer there and now it is broken. And now we fix it and re-automate it. Automations are not invulnerable, we just like to think they are because most of the time they run unattended.
Wheels haven’t changed much since they were introduced. They are still round. The primary concept still holds true. Sure we dress them up, build them with different materials, for different terrains, for different uses, etc, etc, but the primary concept still holds true – they are round and they move forward. The same is true for many software development concepts where you do not need to go and reinvent the wheel, but rather just use…
When multi-core computers hit the mark, developers could now scale their applications to use most of each and every CPU at their disposal. To ignore them and run only one core was an utter waste of your application. The change to implement was worth it, the learning and the time were well spent because leveraging more of what the platform had to offer made a better story for all involved. The same with the cloud,…