In 4 easy phases — Many teams use the words’ deploy’ and ‘release’ interchangeably, which signals that they are not utilizing A/B testing. Moreover, they are not using releases as a strategic tool. It is a shame since feature toggling and A/B testing was used in some of the tremendous successes in tech history: When…

During education to become developers, we learn many skills, some of which are difficult to apply in our daily 95work. Unfortunately, like muscles, if we don’t use a skill, we lose it. Some of the skills that can be difficult to use in our daily work are complexity analysis, algorithm…

Earth has once again passed an arbitrary point in its orbit, which means it is time for self-reflection. This post is a personal retrospective, asking: What did I set out to achieve in 2021? What did I accomplish? How will a successful 2022 look?

I have always loved playing with programming languages, compilers, and interpreters. One of my favorite languages to play with is a single instruction assembly language called SBNZ. In this programming journey, we first implement a virtual machine for SBNZ and then explore the power of the language. If you would…

A step towards continuous improvement — In software development, it is easy to get feature blindness, where we focus almost all of our energy on delivering features to the detriment of productivity, quality, and job satisfaction. In order to sustainably deliver high-quality software, it is imperative that we remember and prioritize improvements to our culture, skills…

An alternative approach than the Flow Framework. — Working with software includes many different types of activities such as maintenance and feature work. If we don’t focus on balancing different types of activities we risk neglecting one to the detriment of productivity and job satisfaction. To aid teams with this balancing act it can be helpful to visualize…

Let’s clear up some common misconceptions. — It isn’t easy to put your finger on exactly what DevOps is, and searching on Google often results in more questions than answers. In this post, I demystify what DevOps is and what it means for your work life. Let’s first get rid of some misconceptions. DevOps is not: about…

Why I think core values are important and how I use mine. — Where to apply for a job? Should you buy that new piece of equipment? Decision making is hard and exhausting, especially if we don't have an overall direction to follow. However, if we are explicit about our core values, we can use them to guide many difficult decisions. …

An overview of the tools we use in DevOps. — In software development, we rely on tools when building anything non-trivial. We can split our tools into two categories: ones that affect the code and ones that affect our process. Tools such as which IDE or database we use typically affect the code, not how we work. On the other…