Articles for category: Delivery

September 7, 2022

Greg Thomas

Broken Automations

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.

September 6, 2022

Greg Thomas

Do we need a new Wheel?

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 what is there and apply it to your own delivery.

September 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leverage your Platform

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, there is more, a great deal more to configure, set up, and walkthrough, but it’s all there, for you to leverage and get the most

When it Rains…

… it will pour, it will sour on every idea and plan that you had that were meticulously and perfectly planned. So have a backup for what happens, when you can’t do that one thing that you had planned for. If we should have learned anything over the past few years, have a backup, always have a backup.

August 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

Routines

Are routines better than streaks? Before streaks, we had routines, things we just did every time we had to do that thing. We didn’t gamify it, we didn’t streak it, we simply knew we had to do it and did it. Are routines harder to follow when you don’t have a counter helping you?