ThoughtWorks recently published a paper that proposed a maturity assessment model for continuous delivery. Technology led companies continue to eat the lunch of traditional companies who are struggling to innovate at the same pace as their younger and more dynamic counterparts. Companies such as Netflix, Amazon, Google and Apple strive to reduce the cycle time from [...]
~ read more ~Last week, Martin Fowler published an interesting post that discussed the role of a DBA in the context of NoSQL databases. Interestingly he titled this post No DBA. Martin’s post couples the role of the DBA to that of Integration Databases. Today’s wisdom would suggest that integration databases are almost always a bad choice for [...]
~ read more ~This morning I was interested to read that Marissa Mayer would end the Yahoo policy of allowing people to work from home. It appears that some Yahoo workers were able to work from home exclusively while others could spend varying amounts of time working between home and the office. There was also a period of [...]
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Reading a post by Patrick Kua on ‘An Appropriate Use of Metrics‘ got me thinking about the type of metrics I have seen organisations use and the naive way in which they can be interpreted. Using inappropriate metrics is lazy at best! The very first example Patrick used was one related to the focus on bugs raised [...]
~ read more ~On Wednesday, in conjunction with Skills Matter, Paddy Power are hosting a talk by Bob Martin on ‘Components and Architecture‘ (if you are in Dublin drop in!). This prompted a colleague to read some of Bob’s recent ramblings which brought him to a company called 8th Light. He forwarded a very interesting post on ‘The [...]
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Following on from the example described in To Sequence or Not To Sequence, it is worthwhile introducing a couple of additional messaging concepts (and try to ring the neck out of the analogy!) The airline check-in procedure could be considered a message pipeline (see Pipes and Filters) in which filters have not yet been identified. [...]
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