Specsavers Enterprise Architect, ex-IBMer, web geek and dad. All views are my own.
Southsea, UK
Joined June 2007
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My measure of codebase quality these days is almost entirely "how easy is it to change". So readability is key, and also making sure that changes have to touch as few places in the code as possible.
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I lost my necklace containing my Dads ashes in Southsea, rose garden, pier area on Monday. Devastated doesn't come close! Desperate to find it. Please, please retweet, i don't have many followers?
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At times like this #COVID19 I know I work for and understanding and ethical company - we are all signing up to the rather excellent @IBM #WorkFromHomePledge @IBMIoT I pledge!
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I was going to build out a hilariously over-complicated & fiendishly expensive Wordpress architecture as a joke, but unfortunately @awscloud beat me to it.
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One core metric I use for #DigitalTransformation is the ratio of people creating work to the ones doing work. The results are shocking, in many organizations you can find 5x - 10x if you don't count externals.
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I am incredibly excited to share the next chapter of my journey. I have launched Decoded Consulting (@decoded_c), a technology leadership practice offering CTO services.
I have written an article about the launch - linkedin.com/pulse/launching…
#cto #technologyleadership #futurecto
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This is awesome news for anyone that had to maintain "that" spreadsheet. RIP RIs
BREAKING: @awscloud has taken pity on us, apparently--they've released Savings Plans, which sounds like something that has to do with retirement. Fortunately it does--specifically sunsetting Reserved Instances. A thread:
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The more important a decision is, the higher up in the hierarchy it moves, which removes it further from the technical reality. A good way to make decisions?
architectelevator.com/transf…
#itstrategy #architectelevator
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Looking behind the #hybridcloud buzzword by showing 8 ways to split workloads. Find each approach's benefits plus things to watch out for in my recent blog post:
architectelevator.com/cloud/…
Riding the #ArchitectElevator
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My thoughts on why simple design >> formal architecture practices. And how I've seen this kind of simple, jargonless software architecture approach work well from Microsoft/Skype, through Skyscanner and Uber. blog.pragmaticengineer.com/s…
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Most roadmaps are setting up their product teams to fail.
That's because, even today, most roadmaps still follow the dreaded *timeline roadmap* format 😱
And here's why that sucks. THREAD 👇
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Read the whole thread. Excellent insights from @tacertain, one of Amazon's most seasoned architects/engineers.
