Sunday 18 December 2016

Damo's Podcast Highlights 2016 #50

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.

[No Fluff Just Stuff] The Challenges facing Software Architects http://blog.nofluffjuststuff.com/2016/11/02/challenges-software-architect/
  • The title of “Software Architect” is often an ill-defined role. In the pursuit of a software architect role many critical facets of the skill set are frequently overlooked. 
  • It is also increasingly difficult to gain necessary experience as a software architect when most software architects focus on an average of one architecture a year-and frequently never see the full lifecycle of their work.

[Scale Your Code Podcast] JavaScript best practices, Node.js and ending poverty https://scaleyourcode.com/interviews/interview/8
  • Take your JavaScript projects and turn them into more maintainable and scalable applications. Eric has a background of building apps that scale, and I asked him to teach us how. 
  • We also talk about Node.js use cases and how to get started with it. If you've been interested in trying Node out, time to dive in!

[No Fluff Just Stuff] Reflections on Agile in 2016 - What's Wrong and how to fix it http://blog.nofluffjuststuff.com/2016/09/21/reflections-agile-john-borys/
  • The agile manifesto was written 15 years ago and many agree the principles reflect the true nature of software development. Despite that, we continue to face challenges in making and maintaining the transition. 
  • The low-level details of the implementation are often poorly understood, the organizational buy-in can be challenging and the result is a sort of “worst of both worlds” mashup of waterfall and agile; “Scrummerfall” as our guest John Borys like to call it.

[Software Engineering Daily] Distributed Tracing with Reshmi Krishna https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/08/24/distributed-tracing-with-reshmi-krishna/
  • In a microservices architecture, a user request will often make its way through several different services before it returns a result to the end user. If a user experiences a failed request, the root cause could be in any of the services along that request path. Even more problematic is the challenge of debugging latency in this kind of request chain.
  • What is distributed tracing
  • Why use ir
  • What is zipkin
  • How it works

[Software Engineering Daily] Algorithms to Live By with Brian Christian https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/12/05/algorithms-to-live-by-with-brian-christian/
  • When you are deciding who to marry, you are using an algorithm. The same is true when you are looking for a parking space, playing a game of poker, or deciding whether or not to organize your closet. Algorithms To Live By is a book about the computer science of human decisions. It offers strategies for how to think through everyday life like a computer scientist.
  • Done in a book review style
  • Time management
  • Sorting vs searching
  • Decision making, optimal stopping

[Developing Up] Six ways you can be a more productive developer http://www.developingup.com/5
  • Be smart about your time and remove time waste
  • Prioritize what you need to get done and focus on the MVP.
  • Use goals and set milestones for yourself.
  • Plan backwards, start with your end result.
  • Be active in your progression and learn deliberately
  • Remove distractions and enter the zone.

[Mastering Business Analysis] Episode 016 – User Story Mapping with Jeff Patton http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/episode-016-user-story-mapping-with-jeff-patton/
  • Why Jeff believes the word “requirements” means “shut up”
  • What User Story Maps are and how they can create a shared understanding within your team
  • How to use Story Maps to create slices of functionality and break a large effort into smaller pieces
  • How to avoid the common pitfalls with User Story Mapping
  • Why User Stories aren’t a different way of writing requirements

[Mastering Business Analysis] MBA081: User Story Mapping with David Hussman http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/mba081-user-story-mapping-david-hussman/
  • Why story maps are a powerful tool
  • How to create a user story map
  • What to do with the story map
  • How to avoid building solutions people don’t want

[The Tim Ferriss Show] Testing the "Impossible": 17 Questions that changed my life http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/12/07/testing-the-impossible-17-questions-that-changed-my-life/
  • “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain
  • What would happen if i did the opposite for 48 hours
  • How do i scratch my own itch
  • whats my real target monthly income
  • can i get back to where i am now
  • Empower people
  • You dont need to make it back in the same way
  • What if i could only subtract to solve problems
  • Am i hunting antelope or field mice
  • 'Waste' money to improve quality of life
  • Non hurry, no pause

[London DevOps] DevOps Transformation in a Large Bank - Nic Ferrier https://youtu.be/JcZOCoUqjBo?list=PL-JvSFEhoWGdv_Cs8c9hY2cYaD1pGXGDZ
  • From a release every 3 months to > 4000 a year

[Developer Tea] How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives http://developertea.simplecast.fm/episodes/10038-how-we-spend-our-days-how-we-spend-our-lives-and-one-way-to-get-a-better-grasp-on-time
  • How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. But how can we get a better grasp on time? 
  • In this episode, I share a simple tip that exploits our brain's natural tendency to take shortcuts to help you better experience time and avoid the feeling of "time flying by" faster than you'd like.

Sunday 11 December 2016

Damo's Podcast Highlights 2016 #49

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.

[Software Engineering Daily] Database as a Service with Eliot Horowitz https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/12/01/database-as-a-service-with-eliot-horowitz/
  • History of mongoDB
  • Current versions
  • Future
  • Competitors
  • Running in the cloud
  • How they do it
  • Document Vs relational

[Software Engineering Daily] AWS Open Guide with Joshua Levy https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/11/14/aws-guide-with-joshua-levy/
  • As AWS has grown to be a gigantic platform, the documentation about how to use cloud infrastructure has become insufficient. As an answer to this, Joshua Levy initiated The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services, an open-source collection of resources available on github

[Hello techpros] The Second Dysfunction of a Software Team: Social Anxiety http://hellotechpros.com/social-anxiety-leadership/
  • An overview of Patrick Lencioni’s second dysfunction of a team: fear of conflict.
  • Why software developers want to think, work and socialize like Commander Spock.
  • How a technical lead or architect can derail a healthy debate by stating their position.
  • Why we need to combine empathy and love with a fierce desire to get our message across.
  • How to foster an environment of healthy conflict in your software development team.

[Freakonomics Radio] How to Make a Bad Decision http://freakonomics.com/podcast/make-bad-decision/
  • Some of our most important decisions are shaped by something as random as the order in which we make them. The gambler’s fallacy, as it’s known, affects loan officers, federal judges — and probably you too. How to avoid it? The first step is to admit just how fallible we all are.

[Agile for Humans] The Agile Mindset with Gil Broza http://ryanripley.com/afh-043-the-agile-mindset-with-gil-broza-podcast/
  • How to foster an agile mindset
  • The impediments to adopting an agile mindset
  • What it means to value the human side of agile
  • How change can happen on an agile team

[Agile for Humans] The Grows Method for Adopting Agile Software Develpoment http://ryanripley.com/afh-042-the-grows-method-for-adopting-agile-software-development-podcast/
What is the Grows Method for Agile Adoption
  • How to gradually grow agile in an organization
  • What is essential to be agile
  • How to get alignment between executives and agile teams

[The Cloudcast] DevOps from the Enterprise http://www.thecloudcast.net/2016/11/the-cloudcast-280-devops-from-enterprise.html
  • All about the DevOps Enterprise Summit (#DOES16), DevOps success stories, how companies manage the evolution, common DevOps failures and any models that can be reused by other companies.
  • Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your experiences at DOES in UK vs. DOES in US.
  • Topic 2 - What stories of successful DevOps implementations did you hear about, and were there any commonalities in those stories?
  • Topic 3 - Are you seeing the successful companies focus more on people/process or cultural changes or automation/CI/CD or on application transformation as part of their DevOps journey?
  • Topic 4 - Have any models emerged that are showing companies how to move DevOps from greenfield environments or POCs or Centers of Excellence (COEs) to wider-scale adoption?
  • Topic 5 - How are people managing the distributed nature of “two pizza teams” and the overhead of keeping projects in sync?
  • Topic 6 - What are the common pitfalls or mistakes that companies need to avoid if they are moving down the path towards DevOps?

[Fight Mediocrity] The 7 habits of highly effective people by stephen covey - animated book review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlTxC4QG8g&feature=youtu.be
  • be proactive
  • begin with the end in mind
  • put first things first
  • think win win
  • seek first to understand then be understood
  • synergyse
  • sharpen the saw

[Nodevember] Staying Sane (dot) JS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP8oEhFXhZs&feature=youtu.be
  • how not to go crazy whilst writing JS
  • How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 - https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.8i5g054y4
  • Developing apps with JavaScript is fun and scary in this day and age. It feels like every application we write will outlive the libraries used to write the app in... and that's not a fun feeling. Sometimes we get the impression that anything written in JavaScript today is so volatile because smart people will come up with smarter ways of solving problems, that will render solutions I write outdated about two minutes after writing it.

Saturday 3 December 2016

Damo's Podcast Highlights 2016 #48

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.

[AWS Podcast] Re:Invent 2016 Day 1-2 Announcements https://soundcloud.com/amazon-web-services-306355661/163-reinvent-2016-day-1-announcements https://soundcloud.com/amazon-web-services-306355661/164-reinvent-announcements-day-2
  • In this special episode Simon summarises all the announcements from Re:Invent 2016 - Day 1-2
  • Athena - search and analyse data in S3
  • Snowmobile - want to move a large amount of data?
  • personal health dashboard
  • DDoS mitigation
  • C# in AWS Lambda
  • AWS Batch
  • AWS CodeBuild - managed build service, only pay for the time you use
  • AWS X-Ray - analyse and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture
  • Lambda at edge


[Software Engineering Daily] Microservices with Rafi Schloming https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/11/22/microservices-with-rafi/
  • Microservices are a widely adopted pattern for breaking an application up into pieces that can be well-understood by the individual teams within the company
  • Microservices also allow these individual pieces to be scaled independently and updated in isolation
  • Rafael Schloming, who is building tools for microservices at Datawire

[The Tim Ferriss Show] Tools of Titans: Josh Waitzkin Distilled https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show/204-tools-of-titans-josh-waitzkin-distilled
  • Josh has written the book 'the art of learning'
  • Considered a chess prodigy, Josh has perfected learning strategies that can be applied to anything, including his other loves of Brazilian jiu-jitsu (he's a black belt under phenom Marcelo Garcia) and Tai Chi push hands (he's a world champion)
  • These days, he spends his time coaching the world's top athletes and investors, working to revolutionize education, and tackling his new passion for paddle surfing

[O'Reilly Software architecture conference] Reactive architecture, design, and programming with Duncan Devore https://youtu.be/nZ1NucpEyxM
  • What is reactive architecture, design and programming

[Reactive summit 2016] Bla Bla Microservices Bla Bla https://youtu.be/DRK7WYNh6AA
  • Everyone is talking about microservices, but there is more confusion than ever about what the promise of microservices really means and how to deliver on it. In this talk we will explore microservices from first principles, distilling their essence and putting them in their true context: distributed systems
  • Core traits of isolation, single responsibility, autonomy, exclusive state, asynchronous message-passing, and mobility
  • It is in between the microservices that the most interesting and rewarding, but also challenging, problems arise—here we are entering the world of distributed systems
  • Slicing an existing system into various REST services and wiring them back together again with synchronous protocols and traditional enterprise tools—designed for monolithic architectures—will set you up for failure
  • What we need in order to build resilient, elastic, and responsive microservices-based systems is to embrace microservices as systems and re-architect them from the ground up using reactive principles

[JavaScript Jabber] Visual Studio Code with Chris Dias https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/199-jsj-visual-studio-code-with-chris-dias-and-erich-gamma
  • Whats new with VSCode

[Agile for humans] System Thinking and #NoEstimates with Chris Chapman http://ryanripley.com/afh-045-system-thinking-and-noestimates-with-chris-chapman-podcast/
  • How a #NoEstimates mindset brings value to a team
  • What lean thinking can do for executives
  • Coaching techniques for when you’re learning about a team
  • Where we learned about lean and system thinking

[This Agile Life] Trust, Transparency and Truth http://www.thisagilelife.com/119/
  • Presentation recorded at Agile Gravy 2016 - Trust Transparency Truth

[Developer Tea] Addictions https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea/6531
  • How do you use technology?
  • Could we be more intentional in the time we spend with screens?