Software An architect is not an evangelist (Bart Wullems) Productivity in Silence: The Ideal of Eliminating Meetings (netleon) "Meeting optimization not only saves time but also often reveals and eliminates deep imperfections in internal processes." Semantic AJAX-HTML (Herman Martinus) Fiddling around with HTMLX A Few Words on Testing (Thorsten Ball) "... maybe there’s no correlation between software quality and tests." Med Dev Designing Wearable Healthcare Devices We Can Trust - MedTech Intelligence Market "is expected to reach $250 billion by 2032"!...

Software IAM Is The Worst (Mathew Duggan) Is GCP and AWS access control bad and broken? What Mob Programming is Bad At (Hillel Wayne) Impact of AI on organizations (Mike Fisher) "a world in which every job a human performs will be aided by artificial intelligence" On The Importance of Getting The Foundations Right (Milos Gajdos) Good advice: "Never stop revisiting the basics regularly." Everyone should be an architect (Bart Wullems) Foster "a culture of shared ownership over architecture" 40 years of programming (Lars Wirzenius) "To do good work you need to take care of yourself....

Software State of the Terminal Ah, the VT100 brings back memories of the VAX days. Microsoft makes the promise of AI in healthcare real through new collaborations with healthcare organizations and partners (Robert Dahdah) So you’ve been reorg’d… "most reorgs are reactions to some form of failure" Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure (Natalia Venditto) "I will avoid as much as possible the term micro-frontend, because we're speaking about rich decoupled applications in the cloud....

Software Luck and Leadership (Mike Fisher) “Luck doesn’t favor the lucky; it favors the prepared.” -- Vince Lombardi Kubernetes Deployments Demystified: A Guide to the Rolling Update Deployment Strategy (Mercy Bassey) Have to keep up with my Kubernetes reading. “Good enough” code is just not good enough (Hrvoje Rancic) It's always better to take the high road. The Hunt for the Missing Data Type "There is almost no graph support in any mainstream language....

Software Do not copy successful architectures (Michał Grabowski) "The concept of a one-size-fits-all approach is ineffective." Strangulating the monolith to a pluggable and scalable architecture (Tasneem Damen) True MACH architecture at McDonald's. Also, TIL that "strangulating" is a word. Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java (Volodymyr Gubarkov) Fun read for those of us with JNI experience. How Netflix Really Uses Java (Paul Bakker) Lots of interesting Java details. Small Changes (Mike Fisher) "Often, small incremental changes can lead to outsized results....