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Monolithic Transformation, the webinar

I’ve got a newly recorded webinar, covering my Monolithic Transformation book: The cliché we all recite is that technology isn't the problem, culture is. Put another way: if the hardware and software are fine and fresh, it must be the meatware that smells. Come hear several de-funking recipes from the world’s largest companies whose meat now smells proper. I answered a few attendee questions in the webinar, and answered the rest in a Twitter thread afterwards.
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Link: Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech

On a certain kind of team, where everyone shares that ethos, and there is very little power differential, this can work well. I’ve had the pleasure of working on teams like that, and it is all kinds of fun. When you have a handful of solid engineers that understand each other, and all of them feel free to say “you are wrong about X, that is absolutely insane, and I question your entire family structure if you believe that, clearly Y is the way to go”, and then you all happily grab lunch together (at Linguini’s), that’s a great feeling of camaraderie.
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Link: Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech

On a certain kind of team, where everyone shares that ethos, and there is very little power differential, this can work well. I’ve had the pleasure of working on teams like that, and it is all kinds of fun. When you have a handful of solid engineers that understand each other, and all of them feel free to say “you are wrong about X, that is absolutely insane, and I question your entire family structure if you believe that, clearly Y is the way to go”, and then you all happily grab lunch together (at Linguini’s), that’s a great feeling of camaraderie.
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Link: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine

Sure you can do a lot of things with Kubernetes. It’s great, but Cloud Foundry is designed to make “Happy developers,” as Comcast open-source senior director Nithya Ruff put it at the Cloud Foundry Summit. Cloud Foundry’s audience, as Karl Isenberg, one of its developers, explained on StackOverflow, is “enterprise application devs who want to deploy 12-factor stateless apps using Heroku-style buildpacks.” Source: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine

Link: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine

Sure you can do a lot of things with Kubernetes. It’s great, but Cloud Foundry is designed to make “Happy developers,” as Comcast open-source senior director Nithya Ruff put it at the Cloud Foundry Summit. Cloud Foundry’s audience, as Karl Isenberg, one of its developers, explained on StackOverflow, is “enterprise application devs who want to deploy 12-factor stateless apps using Heroku-style buildpacks.” Source: Ignore the hysteria, Cloud Foundry is just fine
Doing the ‪@bobbrindley. (I asked for extra pickles. The clerk was confused. I asked again, even, “can I pay for them?” And the assistant manager type looked over his shoulder and said a firm “no.” I mean, I don’t want to fuck with McDonald’s global supply chain and bring down their whole ERP system, causing some kind of “unanticipated gherkin headwinds” on their quarterly call ["we took a q3 hit due to unexpected demands for extra toppings in the Netherlands. We can't really blame the Benelux managers, they can always be trusted. We've hired PwC to investigate and we believe it's the deliberate work of a rogue Texan. This person of interest ordered something they (we're not sure how this individual self-identifies yet and I’d like to take this chance to remind you that we are committed to diversity!) termed 'extra pickles.’ Due to our dedication to customer service, the staff on hand gave the individual five extra pickles. Rolled up to our EMEA and then global revenue for this quarter, this unexpected - and, frankly, bizarre - fulfillment of pickle satisfactuals has required us to adjust guidance for the quarter, sadly, downwards. We've notified local authorities and are cracking all US passports until this is solved. Now we'll take the first question from Goldman..."] or anything...but...pickles?) From instagram