"Dev complete" is neither developed, nor complete.

Charity Majors published a great rant about slow testing and common CI/CD pipeline antipatterns.  The core of her analysis and prescriptive remedies struck a chord with me because in my day job, developers will claim they are "dev complete" for work that customers won't experience for weeks because of slow, centralized, large-scale CI/CD pipelines and bureaucratic, inefficient processes.  Yes, 15 minutes instead of three weeks is an attainable goal.

Wayward Galaxy by Jason Anspach & J. Chaney

Not good, 2/5 Stars.  Inconsistent, terrible plot holes, lousy science.  Good close combat.

Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

Good story with compelling characters, great, consistent magic system and intriguing mystery.  4/5 Stars.

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

This book is not Gibson's best work but the story centers on brand, marketing, and oligarchs so I was curious.  The book is  mildly interesting but became too bizarre and surreal as the powers behind events and spy-craft became more sophisticated. I may or may not read the next book in the series. 2/5 Stars.

The Saints of Salvation by Peter F Hamilton

Fantastic conclusion to a great series.  Page turner!  5/5 Stars.

the phoenix project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

This was quick and fun to read.  I enjoyed how the authors intentionally paralleled the characters from The Goal and brought similar melodrama to a similar setting.  The story was fast-paced and educational.  5/5 Stars.

Agent to the stars by John Scalzi

I liked Scalzi's "big idea" serious books from 15 years ago (Old Man's War universe) but I like his recent humorous, sarcastic books much better (Collapsing Empire universe).  This book is very funny, somewhat contrived (magic system kept changing to adhere to the plot) but it was very enjoyable.  Short & fun, 5/5 Stars.

Cobra Slave by Timothy Zahn

I remember reading these "Cobra" stories in Analog magazine but I have not read other books by Timothy Zahn in the last few decades.  Some of the tech is inconsistent and not all of the physics works but the magic system is relatively consistent.  The politics are fun, except that the aliens are not alien.  I'll read the rest of the series, eventually.  3/5 Stars.

Heaven's River by Dennis E Taylor

A fun romp in the bob-i-verse! It's not as good as the first three and the plot rambled with some random, lazy writing, but still wonderfully enjoyable, extremely well voice-acted, 4/5 Stars.