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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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Whatever happened to the three-year IT roadmap?

CIO

But the value of long-term roadmaps has dwindled to the point where Hausheer, senior vice president and CIO of Teradata, now uses a different, shorter-term plan to steer her and her team. For decades, organizations and their executive teams looked years ahead. Humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future.

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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

Honeycomb

For every request that enters your system, you write logs, increment counters, and maybe trace spans; then you store telemetry in many places. Under the hood, these are stored in various metrics formats: unstructured logs (strings), structured logs, time-series databases, columnar databases , and other proprietary storage systems.

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Editor's Soapbox: Y2K25

The Daily WTF

I'm of course discussing the infamous Y2K bug. We all know the story: many legacy systems were storing dates with two digits- 80 not 1980 , and thus were going to fail dramatically when handling 00 - is that 1900 or 2000 ? Nothing bad happened, and we all overreacted. Survival guides abounded. 4-bits would get us 128.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ?? NEW POST ??

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software.