Folding Air, Software Development With Damian Stanger: September 2016

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2 but I thought I would start to keep a weekly log of the episodes that I found interesting or useful in some way.

This is a big catch-up post as I've fallen behind in the last couple of weeks:

[Mastering Business Analysis] Agile Manifesto – What it Means to Business Analysts http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/mba089-agile-manifesto-what-it-means-to-business-analysts/

In this episode, they take a look at the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto and see what they mean in the context of Business Analysis
How to apply each of the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto to Business Analysis
The mindset shift we need to make to be successful in agile environments
What you can do to adopt agile practices, even in waterfall environments

Learning About Learning
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance (white paper)
Code Kata - A Practice Arena for Becoming a Better Programmer

Kevlin shares his thoughts on the software craftmanship movement and states his opinion on the discussion whether our profession is a form of engineering or not.

Why this concept is becoming increasingly important due to cloud computing. They discuss best practices for writing infrastructure code, including why you should treat your servers as cattle, not pets, as well as how to monitor your cattle.
The benefits — security, auditability, testing, documentation, and traceability.
How to introduce infrastructure as code to organizations.

[Simple Programmer Podcast] Can You Really Learn Anything In 3 Months? http://simpleprogrammer.libsyn.com/214-can-you-really-learn-anything-in-3-months-simple-programmer-podcast

[Cloud foundary summit] Devops, microservices and platforms, oh my https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX4mQHPWuUY

[Nordic APIs] Microservices Anti-Patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I56HzTKvZKc

When microservices are appropriate, and where to draw the lines between services.
Dealing with performance issues (data affinity, parallelism, monitoring).
Testing and debugging techniques.
Managing a polyglot landscape and the explosion of platforms.
Managing failure and graceful degradation.
If you’re an active programmer, then you’re either building a microservice architecture now, or you’re about to inherit someone else’s. This talk will give you the tools to build yours right, and to quickly identify shortcomings of those you have to work within.

[Talks at Google] Scott Berkun- The Art of Project Management https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhA04D_xfp8

[Agile Vancouver] Deception and Estimation How We Fool Ourselves - Linda Rising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFsu4yM-Jw

[Eat Sleep Code Podcast] Better code with functional programming http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/better-code-with-functional-programming/

We discuss how functional programming has made its way back into modern development, clean coding, and more.

Saturday, 3 September 2016

Nicole is one of the key people behind the State of DevOps report (published by Puppet).
The conversation digs into some of the findings in that report, including the proof that stability and speed are not mutually exclusive - you can bring new features and products to market quickly while keeping your systems stable.

The conversation starts out talking about different kinds of features toggles, starting with the classic one that allows you to build features over time, but keep the code in the trunk, just not visible to the users until you're ready.
In some cases, that feature toggle because permanent because it is a tool for ops to reduce load on a server at peak times.
Toggles are also a strategy for A/B testing of different features, styling and advertising

Many games mentioned here, if your into table top games this is worth a listen. They put the games into 3 different categories by age range and difficulty and share some stories on how their families and kids enjoy them.