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Actually, agile was first invented for writing mission critical enterprise software more effectively - thus the emphasis on test-drive-development and a very tight confirmation loo…

Daily standups aren't for tracking progress, they're for keeping the team in sync, and in particular are a forum for raising blockers/dependencies so that they an be addressed. Tra…

When developers pull tasks, their name goes on it. If one dev keeps pulling tasks that don't get done, or take far too long, that becomes obvious to the whole team quite rapidly. T…

No, standups should not be for project tracking, it's a quick synch up and opportunity to raise issues. (e.g. My task is blocked until X is done). Then you resolve the blockage out…

Agile only works for certain kinds of developers. In particular, it works well for people who are team oriented and communicate well, able to talk to the rest of the team to coordi…

The point was that it's lower friction to use the AWS services, and RDS is a great example of this - you can certainly run your own database in EC2, but if you use RDS it's far les…

That's certainly true. Useful Lambda code (i.e. lots of functions cooperating to do something, likely using a variety of AWS services) can only run in the Lambda context. So it's n…

I am not sure that this would be the case. If all the firmware has to do is process G code, that's oh well understood problem, and runs on Arduino's, and whatever is grilling this …

The things that they show (running a web site with lots of UX, slicing, image processing, materials data, catalog of customizable designs, etc.) fit pretty well into a powerful web…