I read a thought provoking book by General Stanley McChrystal, called Team of Teams. I live tweeted quotes from the book as I read it (easily-accessible thread). I wanted to reflect on the lessons I learned, along with a lot of direct quotes, in this post.
What's the last thing developers want to do when the sprint is about to end and they have some more code to write? Documentation. What if I told you that documentation, while absolutely required, is not enough?
As you embark on a new project, be it to build something new or to make incremental changes to something existing, make differences between each set of changes really small. Make small diffs, in other words.
Mirfy* (pronounced like Murphy) - Make it Repeatable for Yourself - means we should make our workflows repeatable. If you have to run through a workflow a second time, it's time to invest in making it repeatable.
* For the record, I coined this term myself
I spent the holidays in 2018 contemplating what my career in 2019 should look like. It has become a ritual to checkpoint my career every so often and try to figure out where to take it next. It has helped me identify what I want to do and then get all the proverbial ducks in a row.
Mity (pronounced like mighty) is an idea to develop a tool to invoke workflows that are orthogonal to each other but from the perspective of a team are all related to their functions and activities.
I was fortunate to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018. Here are some thoughts as it concludes.
I have wanted to learn and use Go for a long time. I got a chance at work to start using it to solve some problems. It has been a great experience so far.
On July 25, 2018, Pakistan held elections. This was the second successive democratic transfer of power ever, since the country was born in 1947. Pakistanis rejected the corrupt status quo parties and their leaders. Pakistanis chose to give a chance to a popular leader who is considered a new comer even after struggling for 22 years in politics. Pakistanis chose Imran Khan to be their next Prime Minister.