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A Unified Theory of Software Karma

I make a lot of jokes at work about code review karma.  Here's the idea: each time a person volunteers to review others' code, that person build their...

1 replies - 2771 views - 01/21/13 by Cody Powell in Articles

Infrastructure Automation and the Cloud

As I write this, I’m sitting in a half-empty office in London. It’s half empty, you see, because it’s snowing outside, and when it snows in London, chaos...

0 replies - 2026 views - 01/20/13 by James Betteley in Articles

Dealing with Exceptions, Logging and Displaying Error Messages

I have a client who is very firm on the idea that the user should know what went wrong when exceptions are thrown. So we're displaying error messages...

6 replies - 3483 views - 01/19/13 by Jonas Gauffin in Articles

Etsy's Code as Craft: "Moving Fast at Scale"

Etsy Labs' fantastic Code as Craft series explores Etsy's strategies for moving fast at scale: etsy on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

0 replies - 3976 views - 01/19/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Frankensystems, Half-Strangled Zombies, and Other Monsters

There are lots of ugly things that can happen to a system over time. This is what the arguments over technical debt are all about – how to keep...

0 replies - 1911 views - 01/18/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Book Review: The Phoenix Project

I am not going to do a ton of book reviews on this blog (I have one more planned for next month). I’ll only bother posting reviews of books that I believe...

0 replies - 1307 views - 01/18/13 by Jez Humble in Articles

Fabric: Tailing Log Files on Multiple Machines

We wanted to tail one of the log files simultaneously on 12 servers this afternoon to try and see if a particular event was being logged and rather than...

0 replies - 1370 views - 01/18/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Dev vs QA: Should There Be a Difference?

We had our scrum of scrum meetings last Wednesday where all scrum masters meet up with our line manager to discuss issues, bottlenecks and success stories of...

0 replies - 2529 views - 01/17/13 by Dinuka Arseculeratne in Articles

How Delays Render All Your Efforts Useless

London Stansted Airport, early afternoon – a huge crowd at the railway station. No trains – only people, and a lot of confusion and anger. Having just...

0 replies - 998 views - 01/17/13 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

Configuring Logging for Postgres.app

Problem You're using Postgres.app on a Mac for local development but are getting SQL errors from your application. You're seeing an error...

0 replies - 753 views - 01/16/13 by David Winterbottom in Articles

Log Archive and Analysis with Amazon S3 and Glacier - Part IV

We now have the logs coming from CloudFront, Web/App and Search tier to the centralized log storage in Amazon S3. In this final post...

0 replies - 1033 views - 01/16/13 by Raghuraman Bala... in Articles

A Serverless, Zero-Configuration Database Solution: SQLite

Most software need saving data. Sometimes that data is predicted to be small and hundreds or thousands of transactions on it will not be needed at the same...

0 replies - 1396 views - 01/16/13 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles

Inviting Hackers into Your Automated Home

I was at the Web Directions South conference the other day and you know what really struck me? There is a lot of very cool, very connected stuff...

0 replies - 3039 views - 01/15/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles

Continuous Deployment: Are You Afraid It Might Work?

I’ve been wondering for a few years now, why it’s so hard to get companies to prioritize the work that I feel is important. I mean, I’m telling you how...

0 replies - 2167 views - 01/15/13 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Delivering Value: Engineers and the End User

When I started following along the devops movement often times the phrase “delivering value” would appear in conversation. That made me ponder even harder...

0 replies - 999 views - 01/15/13 by Spike Morelli in Articles