Double Shot #2383
- 10 shades of MVP (or: how to develop a product without developing a product...) - There are lots of less-expensive ways to test new product and feature ideas.
- Yes silver bullet - Perhaps Fred Brooks was wrong? Even if there are no order-of-magnitude improvements to be had, in any case, that's no excuse for not improving.
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Engineering Documentation - If you don't have organizational memory, you're in trouble.
- Learn Your IDE to Reduce Cognitive Load - There's a balance to be had, I think, that is not the same for everyone. Or maybe I'm just lazy.
- Scallop - A Ruby wrapper to make shell commands easier to handle.
- Kelly O’Donnel: flat, non-hierarchical organizations do not work - It's amazing how many lessons from decades ago need to be re-learned in the tech world.
- Mistakes we made adopting event sourcing (and how we recovered) - Some cautionary tales at the architectural level.
- Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft - Tools and techniques that Microsoft uses to manage open source in general and GitHub in particular.