Articles for category: Drive

December 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

New Categories

I’ve held off on adding new categories to my posts for a while now as I generally think what you do comes down to behaviors of work that you do, but I know I’ve been writing about different areas of work that I’d like to bring more to the forefront and I’m also looking to change some of the content that I’ll be writing about. You’ll start seeing new categories such as Team (for remote, hybrid, office, team content), Ideas for posts that are simply that Ideas, and Developer where I want to get back to more technical content that

December 13, 2022

Greg Thomas

Where it Fell Over

There is always that point in any project where it fell over. The hard part is realizing where you were when it fell over and what you could have done differently. The even harder part is wanting to find this point so you can make a difference on your next project (because who wants to revisit old pains)?

December 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

Knowing your Performance Baseline

When doing Performance work, the first place you always need to start with is knowing your baseline. If you don’t know your baseline, you will not know what tools to build, what tests to run, and where to move forward to. How do you hit your baseline? You send it traffic, then you up, measure it, if it’s still working, up it some more.  You keep upping it until it falls over and then you go to the test before where things worked – that’s your baseline. Without a proper baseline, all you are doing is throwing darts in a

December 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

The False Plateau

Just when you think you have reached where you want to be, when you have hit all your goals, you realize that this isn’t where you want to be at all. You want to be somewhere further up, you want to change your game and go in a different direction, you might look back down and realize something you skipped over to get here and then decide that where you are isn’t where you need to be. Plateaus are not the goal, they are not the end result.  They are the launchpad for what comes next. Enjoy them, but don’t

December 2, 2022

Greg Thomas

Incremental Gains

They say all gains are meant to be incremental except when you hit that “whoa” moment. Where it finally connects, where you finally break through, where everything completely comes together. At that point it no longer feels like an incremental gain, it feels monumental, it feels huge, it feels like you didn’t just climb up the mountain, but rather ran up it and took a flying leap off of it. But without those small investments, you would have never been able to leap. Don’t doubt the incremental gains simply because you don’t see them immediately, the one day you need