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I am not a great fan of agile and people that argue strongly for it. I like tools that encourage critical thinking and design development docs, well defined prototypes, and working…

In my experience, definitions of managers and what they should be doing varies widely. A lot of developers I meet these days put a pretty narrow scope on what constitutes 'manageme…

Coded for 10 years, been a manager or higher roughly the same period of time. What knocked me out of coding ... you should always give your best work to your people ... don't steal…

GKE user in that region, we are down. I think it's deceptive to say it's a single zone. We have VMs across three zones, but anything stateful on zone a is stranded, we can't get th…

The most useful piece of advice I have gotten for estimates is that they are all junk until someone sits down and tries to do the work. For big jobs, 20% of it, small jobs pushing …

Started small with k8s / gke, suffered a lot, coming to appreciate it as we grow. I think over the last 1-2 years there weren't a lot of other choices. Knowing what I know now, I t…

I make a point of asking people how are they doing at the start of one on one meetings. 9/10 people say 'good', and we go to other topics. 1/10 has something to say, and that's ok …

Surprised I haven't read this in thread yet, but isn't this Issue what makes homekit enabled routers appealiNg when they finally release ? As I understand it the router can isolate…

This. I have a really hard time measuring it, but ever since we really worked on error reporting our week-end sleep factor has greatly improved. For a complex system though, don't …