Articles for category: Drive

April 27, 2023

Greg Thomas

Foot in the Door

You used to be able to walk past a meeting room, stick your foot through the door, poke your head in, and go – “Hey what’s shaking?  Can I help out here?” Not so anymore, now you don’t know what calls are going on where, only the ones in your purview, only the ones that affect you. If you’re new to the company, there are big, global, wide-open channels you now need to take the plunge and jump into, not knowing who is going to respond, what they are going to respond with, or if they are a bot for

April 22, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Little Tweaks

We add pinches of ingredients to recipes, not the entire container.  If the taste is still off, we add a little more. Little tweaks are the changes we make that improve what we are doing.  They are a great way to make a minuscule improvement that could have a great impact on what you are doing. Only if you’re brave enough to do them. There is comfort in what we have always done, and that has always worked even if we are doing a few dozen other tasks to make them work. Tweaks are the little test benches to see

April 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

This is what you Signed Up For

Leading a team. Testing Code. Writing Code. Building Requirements. Yes it gets tough and is never easy and there are good days and bad days, but this is what you signed up for because outside of the bad days there are always going to be good days, great days, and yes gooderer days (seriously that’s a word Grammarly). This is what you signed up for, push through the bad so you can get to the Gooderer.

April 18, 2023

Greg Thomas

How to Run a Performance Test

Here’s how you run performance, scalability, and load tests. Write down what you are going to test. Write down how you are going to test it. Write down how you are going to measure the test. Run the test. Report on the test. Rinse, Tweak, and Repeat Don’t worry if, in the first round, you get it wrong, that’s why you rinse, tweak and repeat to keep getting better and better at it. Most times we get hung up on #1 and #2 because we want it to be perfect, but it never will be, you just need to get

April 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Heavy Lifting

No one wants to do the heavy lifting, especially if you’ve done it before, you know just how heavy it can really be and that what is being said at that next meeting or on paper is just a glimpse into what is required. But at the end of the day, it needs to get done and you can either ignore it or start lifting. What you might not realize is that if you’re seeing what needs to be lifted, others might not be and that puts you in a unique position to not only lift first but lead the

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