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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Disallow anything outside the scope of the original task, such as code cleanup or other drive-by improvements.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.

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The DX roadmap: David Rogers on driving digital transformation success

CIO

Rogers: This is one of two fundamental challenges of corporate innovation — managing innovation under high uncertainty and managing innovation far from the core — that I have studied in my work advising companies and try to tackle in my new book The Digital Transformation Roadmap. They should rather manage through experimentation.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

But many CIOs, worried about going over budget, pre-book too much capacity. While having that cushion avoids unplanned budget issues down the road, many CIOs waste money on substantial amounts of pre-booked capacity they never use, McKee says. Usage estimates need to be more accurate, and cushions should be smaller, he says.

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MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. All ML projects are software projects.

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Don’t let collation versions corrupt your PostgreSQL indexes

The Citus Data

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut (earlier versions) Discussion: [link]. Book binders use it to mean putting pages into the correct order. Outside special technical fields, it may be better known as an old fashioned and formal name for a cold meal (cf. Author: Thomas Munro. Author: Julien Rouhaud. What is a collation?

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Global Software Architecture Summit 2022 Recap

Apiumhub

On October 3-4 we organized and hosted the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona. This year the event was focused on Software Architecture Metrics as they are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a software project. Attendees Profiles.