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Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World

“If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and impossible. The work that takes to get there is painful and fraught with peril and compromises. We think the path to success looks like a nice, neat flowchart. We think change comes from the top down, or the bottom up, when in reality it’s a bunch of arrows coming from a variety of crazy directions, with missteps and everything in-between.

Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World

“If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and impossible. The work that takes to get there is painful and fraught with peril and compromises. We think the path to success looks like a nice, neat flowchart. We think change comes from the top down, or the bottom up, when in reality it’s a bunch of arrows coming from a variety of crazy directions, with missteps and everything in-between.

Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World

“If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and impossible. The work that takes to get there is painful and fraught with peril and compromises. We think the path to success looks like a nice, neat flowchart. We think change comes from the top down, or the bottom up, when in reality it’s a bunch of arrows coming from a variety of crazy directions, with missteps and everything in-between.

Link: Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale?

“We’re not hand-crafting dovetail joints here. To be ethical engineers in a hyperscale world we need to reason critically about what we build, on a feature-by-feature basis, and stand by our reasoning if it is sound.” Original source: Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?

Link: Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale?

“We’re not hand-crafting dovetail joints here. To be ethical engineers in a hyperscale world we need to reason critically about what we build, on a feature-by-feature basis, and stand by our reasoning if it is sound.” Original source: Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?

Link: Ethics? Yeah, that's great, but do they scale?

“We’re not hand-crafting dovetail joints here. To be ethical engineers in a hyperscale world we need to reason critically about what we build, on a feature-by-feature basis, and stand by our reasoning if it is sound.” Original source: Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?

Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation

“Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long time to deliver features? Are features underutilized? Do you not know the utilization of features? Do you have downtime during maintenance or deployment windows? Do your customers tell you your site is down before you know it? Do outages occur repeatedly for the same reason? Are customer feature requests implemented in a way that doesn’t actually fulfill the customer’s needs?

Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation

“Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long time to deliver features? Are features underutilized? Do you not know the utilization of features? Do you have downtime during maintenance or deployment windows? Do your customers tell you your site is down before you know it? Do outages occur repeatedly for the same reason? Are customer feature requests implemented in a way that doesn’t actually fulfill the customer’s needs?

Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation

“Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long time to deliver features? Are features underutilized? Do you not know the utilization of features? Do you have downtime during maintenance or deployment windows? Do your customers tell you your site is down before you know it? Do outages occur repeatedly for the same reason? Are customer feature requests implemented in a way that doesn’t actually fulfill the customer’s needs?

Link: Millennials: A tale of two generations

‘The oldest Millennials are now in their mid 30s and finally “settling down,” which leads to heightened concerns about finances, kids and home buying, while the youngest Millennials are still pursuing their education.’ Chock full of survey info and demographic stuff. Original source: Millennials: A tale of two generations