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by ericalexander0 3y ago
Yes. Why? It streamlines the process and improves results.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Manager schedules are more about bringing order to chaos. It's constant context switching that prevents entering a flow state. It attracts those who are motivates by vice over virtue. What their title or comp is. Not what they work on,
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Checked your spf and dmarc settings?
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Books: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team & Elegant Puzzle.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
You sound conflicted between shipping the quickest way possible, and your sense of pride in craftsmanship. You're not alone. It's a big reason why time based releases are popular. It's why eXtreme Programming (XP) became a th
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Read Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. First you'll have to learn to compel customers to talk with you, then it's all about becoming comfortable with rejection, and grinding out the numbers game.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
“Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way… do not complain about illogical behavior…” - Eli Goldratt It's more likely a management problem, with managers who've fallen
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
It's hard to have an effective debate without level setting. A basic understanding of how we're influenced. Books that come to mind are:Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, and The Design of Ev
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Check out Exercism https://exercism.org/
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
How would a hot war benefit China? Does a tall tree not catch all the wind?
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
OWASP cheat sheet on password storage. Can be used for API key storage. https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Cool, but how did they measure the success of the changes? I expected to read something along the lines of DORA key metrics.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Getting the right people on the bus is only one component. See Jim Collins' map for the others. https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts.html
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Many books come to mind here. No rules rules, measure what matters, hackers and painters, and good to great. Some companies will have the luxury to avoid a race to the bottom, driven by the addiction to quarterly profits. The rest will get
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Welcome to management. At best you'll be making directionally correct decisions. Don't wait for perfect clarity. It's unlikely to happen, and it's probably too late if it does. You know what to do here. Go do it. Then go
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
These CEO mandates are curiously similar, yet so ill-concieved.They sure feel more like political talking points. Likely has more to do with the looming "debt spiral", and not productivity. https://news.bloomberglaw.com
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
I work at a company with a presence in AWS, GCP, Azure, Aliyun, and global data centers we operate. I've learned, yes, you can save money - but only if you're good at forecasting workload and operational costs out 5 years. I suspe
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
It's no coincidence. Jobs was influenced by quality philosophers like Toyoda, Deming, etc. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kib6uXQsxBA
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Who learned the Toyota/Toyoda way from Sakichi Toyoda. https://www.toyota-industries.com/company/history/toyoda_sak...
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Does perception matter? The perception of both US and Chinese capability in the eyes of their citizens, and the world? The perception that a cold war could turn to a hot war?
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Reminds me of Westrum types. Every organization is a snowflake. There is no one type fits all solution. https://cloud.google.com/architecture/devops/devops-culture-...
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Pfsense comes to mind. All solutions will need to be trusted as a root CA, by all devices routed through them, to filter URL patterns. No CA trust needed to do DNS or TLS setup filtering, but those options can only filter the hostname.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Tried it about 4 years ago. Didn't like it. Chose Keycloak and have been using since.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Do successful people manifest luck, or do they have a higher return on luck? https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/return-on-luck.html
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
“Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way… do not complain about illogical behavior…” -Eli Goldratt
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
The move to microservices is often more about scaling change management when an organization grows from tens to hundreds of engineers. Change management becomes the bottleneck when organizations exceed Dunbar's Number, and a "reve
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Progressing on the important things, not just the urgent things.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Some good links here to engineering org blogs and handbooks. https://unmesh.dev/awesome-engineering
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
>freely usable by unregistered users Why not require registration and in turn authentication? Easier to rate limit with authentication.
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by ericalexander0 4y ago
Having built security programs at multiple companies, I can tell you it's not something as easy as one person cramming content for a day and then implementing with ease. It's also unclear what outcome the business is looking for.

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