Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Not considering scale
The scale of your technical operations/budget places a hard limit on how much you can afford to spend on cost management. Any efforts you make...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Intro
Engineering is where science meets economics. In the tech world, this means that we as engineers are primarily concerned with using scientific and logical tools...
SCaLE 21x is coming!
I'll be running a track for the SoCal Linux Expo (aka "SCaLE"), which has been my go-to favorite tech conference for many years. I remained...
Anti-Patterns in tech costing
I recently gave another presentation for the Vancouver software development managers. Not my greatest, but I still like the idea and it needs to be...
My most important lesson
Our customers don’t come to us because we have the best technology, they come to us because we provide a better value....
Lessons from the top of a snowy hill
Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...
How I became “glue”
As has often been the case in my life, I was in a category of people who were not supposed to exist. I was that...
Don’t buy tech from somebody you meet in Church
If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever "we're part of the same group, you can trust me," then you...
Software is hard
A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a...
SCE to AUX
DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure....