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Decisions: Rational, Right.
Decisions Can Be Right Without Being Rational, and Rational Without Being Right. While being rational is somewhat in our hands, getting the decisions…
Nov 15, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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August 2023
Programming as Theory Building. Peter Naur.
A program is not just its source code. It is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of the people that work on it. The code is merely a…
Aug 26, 2023
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July 2023
Arguments and Results, James Noble. Part 1.
Summary and annotations of paper "Arguments and Results" by James Noble. Part 1: Three patterns to simplify functions with complex arguments.
Jul 15, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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Serverless and Cost Duality.
In this fortnightly edition: Serverless and Cost Duality. Wolfram's paper "What is ChatGPT? and Why does it work" explains inner workings of ChatGPT and…
Jul 8, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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June 2023
On The Criteria to be used in Decomposing System into Modules by D.L. Parnas
Paper summary of "On The Criteria to be used in Decomposing System into Modules" by D.L. Parnas, 1972. The importance of encapsulation in a good…
Jun 30, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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The importance of having slack in your plans.
The importance of having slack in your plans. Many bad takes on Prime Video's move to monolith from microservices. Cryptography, brief history and…
Jun 20, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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April 2023
Agile Metrics Sin#2: Unbalanced Metrics
Why is a Balanced Regimen in Agile measurements so important? And why for an overall success, you should measure productivity, quality, predictability…
Apr 10, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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Agile Metrics Sin#2: Unbalanced Metrics
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The Fortnightly. 04.04.23
Highlights: Comic of the fortnight. The "Knowledge is an Investment" metaphor. QWERTY keyboard and path-dependence. And, Why not investing in tests is a…
Apr 4, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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March 2023
Agile Metrics Sin #1: Using measurement as a lever to drive someone else’s behaviour
Do you use agile metrics as a feedback to improve? Or do your metrics end up influencing other's behaviours, often in unwanted fashion?
Mar 28, 2023
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Nayab Siddiqui
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The Fortnightly. 21.03.23
Highlights: A mental model on having meaningful discussions. How Spotify uses Squad Health-Checks as a model for continuous improvement. One of the best…
Mar 21, 2023
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Don't use acronyms while naming things : It Depends
In Clean Code universe, it is highly advised to not use acronyms while naming things. But should this be a universal law? Like most things software, it…
Mar 9, 2023
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September 2022
Organisations: Through the lens of Emergence.
Why most of our attempts at replicating the success(es) of our “hero” organisations in our companies are futile, naive even!
Sep 24, 2022
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