For an organization with more than a handful of development teams, the hardest decision in technology right now is to decide where the cutoff between your platform teams and your software teams should be. As with most things in the world today there are loud people making loud claims on both side of the debate […]
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Dev Teams are Blocking Infrastructure
I recently took the job within Kyndryl of helping to establish and expand our Application and Data Consulting Practice. Kyndryl is known as an infrastructure company, there’s no way around that and I got lots of questions about why anyone would want to run the software portion of a company so focused on infrastructure. The […]
Book Review: Ahead in the Cloud by Stephen Orban
I found a lot of great nuggets in this book, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it to everyone. If you’re trying to sell your boss on a move to AWS, definitely give her this book. If you’re trying to figure out what your IT priorities are, I’d recommend Leading the Transformation or The Pheonix […]
Book Review: Unicorn Project
I actually finished the Unicorn Project a couple weeks ago and didn’t take great notes on it, so this won’t be as extensive of a review as I often provide. I did enjoy the book, and like it’s predecessor (the Pheonix Project) it does a great job of showing how some of the best processes […]
Clever Idea – Invitations with Angular and OAuth
I’ve decided to start a bit of a series of blog posts called “Clever Idea”. I’ll use the space to talk about something I’m working on either in my hobby project (an app for picking Football games with your friends) or at work that I think is clever. The intent will partly be to share […]
Fantasy Baseball WAR
Whether you care about baseball or not. Whether you wanted to hear about it or not. If you’ve had more than three conversations with me in real life, I have told you that one of my favorite things is the fact that in baseball a player’s “Wins Above Replacement” (WAR) can be calculated. Statisticians can […]