Toots from 2023-07-12#
“The sheer fact that “Big Ball” is a nebulous, plastic metaphor has enabled almost any meth…#
“The sheer fact that “Big Ball” is a nebulous, plastic metaphor has enabled almost any methodology or architecture that fell out of favor over the past quarter-century, to become associated with it. When microservices makes inroads with organizations, it’s the monolith that gets to wear the crown of thorns.”
https://thenewstack.io/amazon-prime-videos-microservices-move-doesnt-lead-to-a-monolith-after-all/
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“tl;dr: if you are a “team of one” and ever feel stuck/isolated, it’s totally normal (and…#
“tl;dr: if you are a “team of one” and ever feel stuck/isolated, it’s totally normal (and encouraged) to lean on other folks here for help!”
https://larahogan.me/blog/find-a-buddy-team-of-one/
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“And then there is Safety-II and resilience (e.g. resilient healthcare). Rather than thinking o…#
“And then there is Safety-II and resilience (e.g. resilient healthcare). Rather than thinking only about counterfactuals and seeking only to avoid that things go wrong, Safety-II involves thinking about work-as-actually-done, and how to ensure that things go right. This means we have to ask “what is right for us (at this time)?”, i.e. what matters to us and what are our goals?”
https://humanisticsystems.com/2016/02/27/neverzero-thinking/
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“Which leads to the hardest question actually, turns out, how do we define what coordination is…#
“Which leads to the hardest question actually, turns out, how do we define what coordination is? That’s where Ameloot’s proof is really brilliant. He shows that the way to think about coordination is, there are the messages that we have to wait for, even if it turns out we have all the data.”
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/programmable-cloud/