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Hilden, Germany
Joined December 2009
TIL: Glück ist wie Furzen. Wenn du zu viel Druck machst, wird’s kacke! (Leon Windscheid)
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Seeing people either over-hype some approach or quickly dismiss the choices made by others can become quite frustrating. Always assume people had very good reasons for their decisions at the time they made them. 2/2
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NEW POST Conways Law has been an important part of my thinking for years. Important enough to affect every system I've come across, and powerful enough that you're doomed to defeat if you try to fight it. martinfowler.com/bliki/Conwa…
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Replying to @dianamontalion
@dianamontalion thank you so much for getting up early to discuss with @ewolff at #softwarearchitektur im #stream about #nonlinearthinking - it was very interesting! Here are my #sketchnotes. #SketchnotesInDerIT
100% agree! And that counts for ALL software, not only server-side apps but also user-interfaces. Yes, I‘m also looking at you, single-page apps! #ux #principles
There’s a tradeoff between “fail fast” and “graceful degradation.” If your app doesn’t start until fully configured, the problem is clear and right in front of you. If it starts but doesn’t do everything, maybe cool this time, but the problem becomes subtle.
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The "fail fast" line of thinking, and the reason why people are often wary of partnering with Google for anything mission critical.
Unpopular opinion: Google's willingness to launch products, see if they gain critical mass, and, if not, kill them, isn't a corporate weakness.
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next post of the "why we need resilient software design" series, discussing availability in more detail, why failures in distributed system are inevitable and unpredictable and the risks of the widespread 100% availability trap: ufried.com/blog/why_resilien…. enjoy if you like ... ;)
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Fear of deploys is the largest source of technical debt and wasted time in most engineering orgs.
Confidence in deploys is a incredibly undervalued engineering metric.
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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live. The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
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„Think about how to shift your CULTURE in the right direction.“ The rest will follow - @jessitron at #qconlondon 🫶🥰
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"Platform Engineering" is rapidly becoming the new DevOps or SRE. Almost every day we hear about another org building an internal developer platform or control plane. Want to know what platform engineering is, where the trends are going, and why you should care? Read on 🧵👇
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If you look at the “three pillars” of observability from the top, it’s all the same events. @glenathan #QConLondon
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This part is cool: they turned the spans into formatted stdout lines for local dev.
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Looking at the discussion about the #Oscars incident, I really wonder when our society finally realizes that WORDS can also be VIOLENCE. Chris Rock’s “joke” in fact is violent communication! On public television! Is this what we want to teach our kids? ground.news/article/will-smi…
Der Wert dieses Buches für den Alltag wird mir immer bewusster, ich sollte es noch ein zweites Mal lesen: Daniel Kahnemann „Thinking, fast and slow“ #books #recommendation zeit.de/kaenguru-comics/2021…