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Jacob Hamacher — Learn to stop using shiny new things and love...
http://www.jacobhama.com/post/116481461781/learn-to-stop-using-shiny-new-things-and-love
Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL. It turns out that’s only one of three bad reasons (traps) why people go for the shiny and new. Reason two is people mistakenly assume older stuff is slow, not feature rich or won’t scale. “MySQL is sluggish,” they say. “Java is slow,” I’ve heard. “Python won’t scale,” they claim. None of it’s true. Through the gauntlet, two of the most important lessons I learned building Pinterest were:. Does the technology meet your needs? One technology may not be a...
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Ingineering.IT — Empathy: The Essence of DevOps
http://blog.ingineering.it/post/72964480807/empathy-the-essence-of-devops
Using Design Thinking and DevOps to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Operational Effectiveness. Empathy: The Essence of DevOps. 2014 Jeff Sussna, Ingineering.IT. I was surprised to encounter empathy again in the context of cybernetics. This rediscovery happened thanks to a Twitter exchange with @seungchan. I had another Twitter exchange, this one with @krishnan,. An interaction between them? Or something at a layer below them both? We say that, at its core, DevOps is about culture. We advise IT org...
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Ingineering.IT — Rethinking Failure
http://blog.ingineering.it/post/86944780604/rethinking-failure
Using Design Thinking and DevOps to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Operational Effectiveness. 2014 Jeff Sussna, Ingineering.IT. Suddenly failure is all the rage. Innumerable blog posts tells us failure is good, failure is necessary, failure should be incented, Google developed all of its best applications from failures, and so on. But wait a minute - if failure is good, that would seem to imply that somehow it leads to success. If that’s the case, is it really failure any more? The first speaker isn&r...
