Platform Engineers are Breaking Under Terraform Complexity - There's a Better Way
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What our team is thinking, publishing, and building across security and innovation in Canadian regulated industries.
Why Remote Work Is Failing (and How Smart Companies Are Fixing It)
Strategies to Build Strong, Connected Teams—No Matter Where They Work
My Journey from Engineering to Consultant
How I became a consultant to help clients build strong platform engineering teams...and how a consultant can help yours
Branching Done Right
A guide on helping you select the best branching strategy for your team
What DevOps is NOT
Common misconceptions around DevOps
Why Microservices Are NOT The Answer For Most Software Development Teams
While there are lots of advantages from scalability to increased speed of development, the complexity often negates those advantages.
The intersection of Security and Developer Productivity
Reassessing Misconceptions of Cybersecurity in Productivity Metrics
Dev Productivity: Why We Skipped McKinsey Metrics In The Evaluation
These augmented metrics give the wrong signals and actually hinder measuring developer productivity rather than helping it
I implemented DORA in an organization and this was the result
The value of any metric lies not in its collection, but in its use." — W. Edwards Deming
Dev Productivity: Which Metric(s) Do I Use
"A bad system will beat a good person every time." - W. Edwards Deming
Why is Measuring Developer Productivity Difficult?
"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." - Peter Drucker
Could Modern Systems Engineering avert Starliner failure?
"Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." - Conway's Law