Allen Holub
MAY 25, 2018
The original version of this post had the tag #NoRetrospectives in the title, but I got tired of the flak and removed it. My intent was to be a bit provocative and to get people thinking about how we can do better than a biweekly retrospective.
All Things Distributed
MAY 21, 2018
This article titled " Die Arbeitswelt der Zukunft " appeared in German last week in the "Digitalisierung" column of Wirtschaftwoche. The workplace of the future. We already have an idea of how digitalization, and above all new technologies like machine learning, big-data analytics or IoT, will change companies' business models — and are already changing them on a wide scale.
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Professor Beekums
MAY 22, 2018
Multi-tasking doesn’t exist. All the science tells us that we are only capable of task switching. And task switching is really bad for us. Every time we switch tasks, we add to our cognitive load making us less effective at all the tasks we are attempting to do at once. A lot has been written on this topic with the attempt to justify creating work environments where people can focus.
The Polyglot Developer
MAY 24, 2018
Have you ever needed to perform a certain action when the user tries to hit the back button or exit out of your application on Android devices? For example, what if the user was able to back out of your application and you wanted to show a dialog. Or what if you have a video application and you wanted to pause the video when they tap the back button?
The Symphonia
MAY 22, 2018
I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. At that point I’d recently finished up at my previous job, had just been to the first Serverlessconf , hadn’t done much writing in a while, had some time on my hands, and so decided to put a few ideas together. I thought a few folks might be interested. Of course publishing it on Martin Fowler’s site was always going to get it to a wider audience (thanks Martin!
SQL Server According to Bob
MAY 20, 2018
I have been asked several times about how to get a Performance Monitor like view on Linux. There are lots of Linux tools available (top, iotop, Grafana, and SQL Sentry just scratch the surface of available options) to monitor the Linux system. Allow me to share one such example to capture and monitor a system. Performance Co-Pilot. PMCHART can be used much like you use performance monitor.
Professor Beekums
MAY 22, 2018
Multi-tasking doesn’t exist. All the science tells us that we are only capable of task switching. And task switching is really bad for us. Every time we switch tasks, we add to our cognitive load making us less effective at all the tasks we are attempting to do at once. A lot has been written on this topic with the attempt to justify creating work environments where people can focus.
CSS Wizardry
MAY 21, 2018
A large part of my performance consultancy work is auditing and subsequently governing third-party scripts, dependencies, and their providers. Uncovering these third-parties isn’t always so straightforward, and discussing them with the internal teams responsible (more often than not, the Marketing Department) is usually quite sensitive and often uncomfortable: after all, approaching a third-party vendors, or your marketing team, and telling them that their entire day job is detrimental to perfor
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