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ChatOps: Augmented Reality for Ops

Stephen Strickland - September 8, 2024 - 2 mins read
  • engineering
  • ops

Great talk by Mark Imbriaco on ChatOps. He pulls back the veil on how GitHub was operated via ChatOps in 2013.

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The death of Agile - Allen Holub

Stephen Strickland - April 30, 2024 - 1 min read
  • software
  • process
  • agile
  • scrum
  • xp
  • videos

What is “agile”?

Bryan Liles - Test all the f***ing time

Stephen Strickland - February 12, 2024 - 1 min read
  • testing
  • TDD
  • videos

Just test all the fucking time.

The Long Sad History of MicroServices TM, Greg Young

Stephen Strickland - November 14, 2023 - 0 min read
  • engineering
  • microservices
  • videos

Stop Over-Engineering, Greg Young

Stephen Strickland - November 3, 2023 - 0 min read
  • engineering
  • videos

Event Sourcing Class, Greg Young

Stephen Strickland - October 23, 2023 - 0 min read
  • event-sourcing
  • videos

Event Source Versioning, Greg Young

Stephen Strickland - October 1, 2023 - 1 min read
  • event-sourcing

https://leanpub.com/esversioning/read

Great book on the concept of versioning in event sourced systems. Walks through the complexity of various approaches, what teams should be looking out for,…

Scalable User Privacy, Spotify

Stephen Strickland - September 9, 2023 - 1 min read
  • event-sourcing

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2018/09/scalable-user-privacy/

A common approach to GDRP in event sourced systems is crypto shredding. This article outlines Spotify’s homegrown Padlock system that manages encryption keys for each user at scale. Allowing them to effectively adhere to privacy laws around the globe and hopefully protecting the users at a greater level.

Realtime Colors

Stephen Strickland - August 29, 2023 - 1 min read
  • ux
  • design

Great site for building color palettes

https://www.realtimecolors.com/

Here’s link to this websites old theme: https://www.realtimecolors.com/?colors=fcfdfd-0c0d0e-317ea5-1c2326-748e9a&fonts=Source%20Sans%20Pro-Source%20Serif%20Pro

No Estimates - Allen Holub

Stephen Strickland - August 7, 2023 - 0 min read
  • software
  • process
  • agile
  • scrum
  • xp
  • videos

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