Sunday, March 28, 2021

kind, gentle introduction to services mesh concepts

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Here is a fantastic and simple introduction to services mesh concepts with a comparison and review of service mesh software currently avail...

OAUTH v2.1 will mitigate some security holes

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Teri Rachel explains why and how we should all follow Amazon's better practice of forbidding Implicit Grants in OAUTH and require proof...

fear of true continuous deployment is very expensive

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Almost two months ago, I read this interesting post by Charity Majors about the cost of our slow CI/CD pipelines.  I was meaning to summariz...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

extending software package data exchange into a bill of materials

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In my, ahem, somewhat motley career in software development I recall the "Total Quality Management" (TQM) movement in the last mil...

Hanlon's Razor and the Negativity Trap

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In addition to using the books and writings of Frances Frei on Trust, most of us can improve our joy, engagement, and productivity at work ...

ArgoCD simplifies multi-cluster k8s management

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Among the interesting challenges infrastructure teams, site reliability engineering teams, and DevOps developers face when developing or fac...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

augmenting our bodies

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In his first book, More than Human  in 2010, our buddy  Mez took us on some great thought experiments about the promise of brain-enhancing ...

Do YOUR Job first

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Charity Majors posted some more good career advice in her blog on 2021-03-07.  It's about focus and getting YOUR job done first, before...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Why are all CEOs of trillion dollar companies originally software engineers?

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The International Institute of Software Management ( iism.org ) features a relatively long but worthwhile analysis of why there are so many ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Better Code Review Practices

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I recently reminded folks at work that it sometimes helps to look back at the issues we put into our code in the last 3-9 months.  We can fo...