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by flowingfocus 2y ago
Yes, our models are never complete. As someone here already wrote: "all models are wrong, some are useful". What makes me optimistic here is that since the enlightenment we have a good track record with arriving at better and bett
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by flowingfocus 2y ago
I find that it sometimes easier to accept this as this is just how life is when I read people with experience write about this. If this is true for you as well: There is a good book review about it on SSC https://www.astralcodext
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by flowingfocus 2y ago
Platform engineering applies the lessons the cloud providers have learned to internal software delivery. Self service + APIs for all offerings reduces friction for developers and allow automating the most recurring things they want to do. P
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by flowingfocus 3y ago
The whole process of predicting the world and trying to match incoming data against the predictions is explained in more detail in "Surfing Uncertainty". Relevant SSC book review: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017&#x
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by flowingfocus 3y ago
Shameless plug: At the company I work for (meshcloud) we have developed a freely available model that describes the capabilities your central team is building up: https://cloudfoundation.org/maturity-model/ Disclaimer:
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by flowingfocus 3y ago
I recently built my first wheel from scratch. Everything I needed to know was collected on this fantastic page on wheel building https://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html > Learning to build wheels is an important mil
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by flowingfocus 4y ago
And besides the current people themselves changing, there are also many other ways in which incentives can change: new people get into the mix (investors, board members, c-level), people leave etc. I recently formulated it like this: As lon
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by flowingfocus 4y ago
> They don't want to make you happy or feel good, they want money, at all costs which results in you being angry and toxic. I agree that the incentives between users and social media don't align. However, there still would be n
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by flowingfocus 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! > Great textbook, I learned all the topology I know from it. Hatcher's Algebraic Topology was that book for me. https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
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by flowingfocus 4y ago
Gregor Hohpe called this "Topology from Code" or "Architecture from Code" in a talk he gave at AWS Summit Berlin.