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That seems sane, is there a cohort of engineers pushing for trunk based development?

I think the point is that the Access, Lotus Notes tooling was in largish corporations somewhat ubiquitous. The experience of this tooling was make a change and it was in production…

Believe me it is not laughing in a good way, it is more a nervous laughter with a permanent sinking feeling in the stomach kind of way. The collective 'we' developed nations have o…

In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.

Not 100% sure of the rationale in this case. I imagine it might have to do with everyone who runs an instance needs to maintain an additional storage system along with all the asso…

Robocopy may be an approximate equivalent for rsync. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

I am chartering a yacht in two weeks and have been busy re-learning how to tie a core set of knots. This is easily the best resource that I have been using with the rest of the cre…

Sound advice - currently going down the path of try to make the role better. It will however be a long journey, so need to work out whether I am sufficiently committed to the path.…

I am the most senior engineering IC by position and years of experience at my current company in a 100+ person engineering group. The only problems I deal with are non technical an…

And loving it ;)

I find myself coming back to Data and Reality on a periodic basis to remind me that the model is just the model. https://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm

This by the same team who brought you the DORA metrics and the SPACE framework. I suspect it is really a vehicle to sell books and consulting, despite the article largely making se…

Leadership, Process and Discipline

Role is "disestablished"

I have to add “If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things” from Musashi which conveys a similar sentiment.

I think the second amendment was probably intentionally not mentioned.

I have seen teams spending most of their time on working on the highest priority (by a single measure) and not spending any time on overall delivery efficiency. So having a balance…

I think if you rephrase it that they "dragged the whole company out of the particular IT hell that is associated with banks owning, running and procuring infrastructure" it probabl…

No, to the point that there is this website - https://safedelusion.com/

I thought I was the only one old enough to remember that we have been here before. Back in the day I even had an email thread with Ryan Dancy about making software tooling based on…

My company is and ayecarumber, it resonates.

There are a multitude of different ways to bridge from mainframe (IBM Websphere MQ/Host integration server) systems or to make file based systems look mostly online (small, frequen…

Agree, was super excited when I saw reference to the German tank problem as that is immediately what I thought of in the first post.

This used to be the way. Now it takes a whole team to put a textbox on a Web app.

I feel this could be dangerous advice to follow.