Category: progressive delivery
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Saying the same thing, differently
In the view of capital, developer experience is like creating steam-powered mills. Sure, there’s a risk of mangling the workers, but look how much more productive they are, and how it drives costs down for everyone!
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How guardrails enable you to work at AI speed
On December 10, I’m joining a bunch of cool people on a LeadDev panel to talk about guardrails and AI use. Register to join us! As we were doing the pre-panel discussion, I started thinking about the metaphor we were using. Guardrails are not uniquely American, but they are very American. We see them so…
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Upcoming appearances
Upcoming appearances at ETLS, LeadDev panel, and Monktoberfest, with some book signings!
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Git along now
Look around you. Do you feel like maybe it would be nice to be able to have relational databases in your nice safe DVCS? What about streaming releases? What about coders who might be scared about screwing up? Do you actually roll all your code libraries up into the version control, or do you reference…
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Generationship: Wayfinder
Rachel Chalmers and I talked about how to think of Progressive Delivery in the context of CI/CD and observability, and then we got into the nitty-gritty of what I think about AI and how it intersects with user choice.
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New Phone Day
In many ways, the teams that have made it possible to port so much from one device to another have been doing excellent progressive delivery, as have the teams that have pushed out OS and security updates to our phones, and updated our apps, and made the whole thing something that I never have to…
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Consent-Based Computing
Can’t make me! Possibly not everyone has this immediate reaction to software telling them to do something, like SIGN UP NOW or TRY AI or USE OUR CHATBOT. I do. My day is full of ignoring that reaction and also learning every tip and trick possible to avoid being alerted when I don’t want it.…
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Garbage: Solving the last meter problem
The important part is not how far behind someone is, but how well a solution works given their constraints. Can we make an improvement that is worth the disruption?
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Context is King
Amanda Ciarci wrote an article called Content vs Context: If Content Is King, Context Is Queen in Marketing. It talks about how the right content doesn’t work as well if it’s not paired with the right context. We can all think of examples of this from retail advertising. The right time for a delivery pizza ad…
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Guardrails and Plimsoll Lines
In an era where we have to assume that our data is being collected, and the data we collect, I think we need to get more nuanced about our guardrails. We need to think about what the worst possible outcome is, and then what the worst likely outcome is. We need to consider the dangers in different…
