Topic: consulting
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Thoughts: Engineering Principles
There are several great frameworks that help set standards for good engineering work. My go-to references are the principles of Lean Manufacturing, Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Bauhaus Principles, and Amazon Leadership Principles. And of course, The Frugal Architect.
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Event-Driven Continuous Integration & Delivery
The more complex your application and architecture becomes, the more complex your deployment process usually gets. Most people and engineering teams only think about pipelines as a fix path of actions, that need to happen in a specific order. That’s true, no questions about that. But your process for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery does not need to be a monolith!
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About Diversity and an inclusive work spaces
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AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap & Videos
I was able to attend the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference. A week full of learning about current and new technologies, services, and general approaches is definitely overwhelming. There is no much content available, during the conference, and as videos and slide decks afterwards. I tried to list my favourite talks. There are way too much of them.
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CloudFormation Best-Practices
You can find plenty of frameworks and tools to provision your AWS resources. Some of them do a great job for a specific purpose, others are more generic. Nevertheless, I do prefer to use native CloudFormation templates as much as possible.
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68% Mechanical Keyboard with 68Keys.io
With the content on 68Keys.io, you can build your own custom 68% Mechanical Keyboard! Sounds great, right? You will find all information about the needed Circuit Board, Aluminium Case, and modified TMK firmware on the project’s site.
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In Software, you don't plan for the Happy Path
It’s a recurring task in software development to forecast the amount of time something will take. There are Roadmap Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings or even the spontaneous estimates you must provide in the hallway. All of them require you to pull out your divining rod and predict the future.