All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

'In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. We don’t take a view on which of these approaches is more likely to maximize business success.

AWS 117

AWS Innovation Energy Best Practices 117

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Your application just broke, oh no! It couldn’t have been your code, right? I’ve always had trouble spotting mistakes in my own work such as spelling, grammar, mathematical, or even in programming. With spelling or grammar, office applications quickly pick up on my mistakes and underline them for me, but most of my mistakes come from my own hubris.

Testing 52

Testing Programming Code 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I had intended this month's blog to be about how industrialization would expand the secondary labor market and subsequently be a lost opportunity to create a new generation of knowledge workers rather than the next generation of wage laborers. While writing that, it occurred to me that industrialization appears to separate design from making, when in fact it does not, and that separation - real or otherwise - is essential to understanding the separation of labor into primary and secondary strata

Design 49

Design Strategy Engineering Architecture 49