Ruminations on outsourcing our values

This 3-day workshop focuses on solving challenges that organisations face when implementing
DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full
automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical…

Are we ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early web again? There are trends that suggest we might just have come full circle - and I like it.

Accidental complexity on a company level

By Anna Shipman

You have the title. The experience. The authority.

Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VP & Chief Open Source Officer, VMware

The old crocodile was floating at the river’s edge when a younger crocodile swam up next to him,

This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had…

In this session of Thursday's Matter, our co-founders, Sandro Mancuso and Mashooq Badar, dive into a discussion about some of the key strategic aspects of Software Modernisation initiatives. Most importantly they cover why Software Modernisation programs…

II➤ Michael Feathers ✅ explains why unit tests require a modular software design ✅ and how modularity ✅ leads into quality. | ➥ Read now!

Do you actually use data structures and algorithms on your day to day job? I've
noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions
that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure. I hear more
people complain about…

In a team I sat next to, a junior developer asked a senior to conduct code review for a newly completed feature. According to the process, that Senior had to approve all changes going to production. Here is how it went:

Junior: “Could you please take a look…

Recruiters don’t understand IT and software development. They have never worked closely with programmers, have never been part of a development team, and never developed software products. For them, a programmer is just a combination of keywords and Java…

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...

FINALLY, I DECIDED TO DO IT… ⠀ At the beginning of my professional career, I wanted to have a new computer, but could not afford it. I asked my old friend to sell me his old Mac... and he gave it away to me for free. I told myself: one day, I will do the…

Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.