Movies and Series a Manager Should Watch

Below is a list of movies and series that create in my opinion top list for any manager to watch. As always, I may update this list from time to time: Moneyball – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/ Silicon Valley – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/ Office Space – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804 Inception – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666 The Matrix – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486

“Jobs to Be Done”

Really enjoyed this HBR piece – https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done. Great insight into one of major limitations of our machine learning / pattern matching age. Quantitative analysis of data does not replace qualitative. And it is frequently non-obvious how to merge the two together — which often results in resorting to simple solutions (or “we have always done it… Continue reading “Jobs to Be Done”

DevOps KPIs: Distance between latest and oldest production versions

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject of KPIs that should be used in DevOps. Among them, maybe the most important is the number of different versions the team has to maintain at a time. This particular indicator frequently comes to the top of my list. To me, this indicator mainly resembles Army… Continue reading DevOps KPIs: Distance between latest and oldest production versions

Why We Sleep – Time To Rethink Sleep At Workplace

I just finished reading absolutely amazing book “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker and I highly recommend it for everyone. Hopefully, this book may finally change perception of sleep in organizations. I remember about 15 years ago in Moscow, while Russia was one of the faster growing emerging markets, there was this popular phrase –… Continue reading Why We Sleep – Time To Rethink Sleep At Workplace

Blogs I read

This post is mostly for my self to accumulate blogs that I usually read: Martin Kleppmann – https://martin.kleppmann.com/ (also highly recommend his talks regarding transactions and kafka) + book http://dataintensive.net/ and free ebook https://www.oreilly.com/data/free/stream-processing.csp Jessie Frazelle – https://blog.jessfraz.com/ Yehuda Katz – https://yehudakatz.com/ Luke Kanies – https://lukekanies.com/ (To be continued)

This elusive sense of reality

Just watched Netflix’s Fyre documentary – and it’s absolutely amazing. This is about large scale scam on Fyre music festival, where people were buying tickets for many thousand dollars to live in Bahamas beach villas, and instead were put in unfinished tents with no electricity or running water. Even worse, poor locals working for the… Continue reading This elusive sense of reality

SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor

While I personally prefer CalVer, SemVer is still actively used for many projects and quite frequently I work on it. If SemVer is used for something that is deployed to production, one rule I’ve made is to always keep each distinct production on its own minor version. If we have only one production environment or… Continue reading SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor