• Now Available – Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) - Because "Amazon Blockchain" was too obvious, I guess.
  • Agile Light and Dark, and Becoming Value-Driven - "Treating speed as a proxy for value is a chimera. It causes Darkness."
  • Silicon Valley runs on Saudi - "TL;DR: it’s very ironic that, for all of Silicon Valley’s noise about moving fast, breaking things, accessibility, equality, and good old-fashioned American innovation and Freedom, a not insignificant part of it continues funded by foreign governments whose values are fundamentally at odds with what Silicon Valley claims to promote." But read the whole thing.
  • Twelve - As in, where you should set the agile dials. A talk from Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson.
  • Unveiling Dark - "Dark is a holistic programming language, editor, and infrastructure for building backends. You write in the Dark language, using the Dark editor, and your program is hosted on Dark’s infrastructure." Currently in private beta.
  • The ONE chart every developer MUST understand - "This chart says that most teams could deliver their software projects sooner if they focused more effort on defect prevention, early defect removal, and other quality issues."
  • Git Aliases I Use (Because I'm Lazy) - If you don't already have your own set of git aliases, here's a starting point.
  • So you need a logging pipeline - An introduction to using Mozilla's MozDef project for system logging and alerting.
  • KISS - A deliberately simple Linux distribution designed to customize by addition rather than subtraction or tweaking.
  • Everything You Need To Know About API Rate Limiting - A broad survey of the field.
  • my engineering standards - One Director of Engineering's approach to deciding whether software is good enough.