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Thoughts and brain-droppings of a software tester.

What happens when you give a powerful code generator unbounded access to a codebase with no explicit context. And how to fix it.

New and shiny things about Python

After years of scoffing at talk of prejudice in the information technology field -- as a white male with good hair --, I'm starting to call prejudice against my being old(er). It’s true: age discrimination is a real thing.

Patterns from our colleagues' work building with Generative AI

Derek Sivers: Tech independence Derek Sivers: Use the internet, not just companies 50 Years Later, We’re...

Mark Richards runs the Developer to Architect website, and puts out a video every Monday. He has helpfully categorized them. I watched all the videos in the "Soft Skills" category and took notes.

Stop asking questions about certain architectural decisions for a project. Implement Architecture Decision Records, and save the team and yourself future headaches.

In the software development world, there are always new articles and content to consume. Learn how I keep on top of it all and focus on keeping the flood of information to a sustainable level.

An actionable roadmap for AI-native migration, covering bypass pilot, domain isolation, AI-first refactoring, and anti-patterns, with focus on governance loops …

Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

You know the drill by now. It’s time for another recap! Sit back, get a warm beverage and look back at the highlights of Season 3 with us. We’ve been at this for a while now (three seasons, one year, and 24 episodes to be exact). We had guests from a wide range of industries: from automotive to CAD software, and from developer tooling to systems programming. Our focus this time around was on the technical details of Rust in production, especially integration of Rust into existing codebases and ecosystem deep dives. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey last season, which helped us dial in our content. Let us know if we hit the mark or missed it!

Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy, with a particular focus on the methods wielded by McKinsey consultants, software engineering mainstays like Thoughtworks, and philosophy. A valuable read for anyone looking to build their own theory of engineering strategy. In June, 2019, I bought a copy of Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewiit. A the time, I was trying to argue against a large, proposed migration to Java at Stripe, collecting thoughts that became Reclaim unreasonable software. Skimming through Patterns, I didn’t quite find what I was looking for, and I largely forgot about it for the next few years.

Last Black Friday I posted to Facebook: I’m abstaining from buying anything today in protest of excessive consumerism. Make something instead! And got a rather curious reply from a friend: I wish I could make things I mulled that over for quite a while. I struggled to put myself in the commenter’s shoes. It’s wildly foreign to me. In my head, clearly creation is for everyone. It’s not the domain of some privileged class of individuals—it’s an essential act of being human. Everyone should—and can!—create. But I kept tugging at the thread because of a nagging suspicion that perhaps lots of people feel this way.

How I stay in touch with and learn from the greater technology community.

ThoughtWorks just dropped Volume 34 of their Tech Radar, and it reads less like a technology map and more like a warning letter. Several signals on the same screen, all pointing the same way. If yo…

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Newsletter 作为一种去平台化的信息源，能让我们重新掌握信息消费的主动权。本文分享了我多年来积累的高质量 Newsletter 信息源，包括技术主题与科技人文主题，以及相应的订阅方式和使用建议。 - SimonAKing - SimonAKing

New and shiny things about Python

Migrate to AWS - Make a static website using S3, Cloudfront and Route 53 by Lambros Petrou If you’ve been following this blog closely you’ll probably remember…

Why Scala? Because C#

Periodic reports from experts to help you choose technologies to learn and use next.

Monthly collection of things that got me thinking hmming. Awards and reports Time for ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. One of the themes is democratizing programming which is tightly coupled with democratization of APIs I mentioned in the last hmms. The 2020 state of DevOps report is there! I haven’t even read it yet =)

Learnings and Experience of Grace Hopper Celebration 2018

Travelling is part of being a consultant, and speaking at conferences added an extra amount of travel for me. The Covid-19 pandemic changed this quite...

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This post is not here to bring you anything new as it is for me to run a victory lap. If there is anything I blogged about with any consistency, it was about microservices. There are many articles …

The "blips" on the radar I share or find interesting, and my commentary.

Scaling architecture through a structured series of conversations

In the two years since I’ve posted I want off Mr Golang’s Wild Ride, it’s made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...

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Cultivating Architecture by Birgitta Boeckeler describes how to give teams autonomy without causing chaos.

Episode 236 Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with a focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. His professional focus includes designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. Links https://nealford.com/ https://twitter.com/neal4d Resources Fundamentals of Software Architecture https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar https://www.developertoarchitect.com/ https://evolutionaryarchitecture.com/ https://github.com/BenMorris/NetArchTest https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/insights/podcasts https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ramblings/18_starbucks.html “Tempting […]