Why Having a Feature Flag Microservice Is a Bad Idea
Perhaps you have built a tight feature flag package that you can deploy. It has a Slick REST API in a microservice where you can query a flag saying, “Are you on?” It seems easy for other services to...
Get a Progressive Web App Running in Just 20 Minutes!
Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to visit a site on your phone and you get a pop-up that says, “for the best experience, download our app”? You don’t want a different app for each...
Why Transformational Leadership Is Needed in Every DevOps Initiative
Every DevOps initiative needs support from leadership. Without DevOps leadership support, teams won’t be able to move forward smoothly. Leaders have a significant impact on results—not just with DevOps, but...
Service Migration: A Prerequisite for Modern Agility
Have you heard the buzz about service migration? Do you want to know why it’s important to your agility? In this post, I’ll explain what service migration is and how it may be important to your company....
Is CMMI Dead Yet? If Not, Can It Be?
In the early days of software, the US federal government funded software projects using many different contractors. The results varied wildly. Many projects overran their budgets and schedules. Even more...
Getting Started With the iOS Feature Flag (Objective-C)
Mobile apps are often tied to backend services and are expected to evolve in parallel with them. Of course, the backend developers have it a lot easier. They can release a new version of their application pretty...
Database Migration: What It Is and How to Do It
Around the same time Git got popular, the trend for writing web-based applications using object-relational mapping (ORM) libraries also became well known. The key idea was this: since developers can make changes in...
Bringing Validated Learning to All Enterprises
Atlassian has rolled out a groundbreaking integration. You can now view feature flag information right within a Jira issue. At first glance, this might seem passingly interesting more than groundbreaking. If you...
Entrepreneurship 101 for Leaders in the Enterprise
There has been a big push lately to have enterprises focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. The Lean Startup began as a system for, well, startups. Now it’s seen as an important component in the...
How to Resolve GitHub Merge Conflicts
Ten years ago, I was just starting out in my career as a developer. Back then, I was using subversion for my version control—then I came across Git. I remember how thrilled I was to find that Git worked way better...
5 Must-Have Tools for Continuous Deployment
Continuous deployment may sound like a magical, mystical thing. No manual deployments? Production code with no pain? Sign me up! But then the reality hits you: what tools do I use? What if they’re hard to...
Top 6 Management Fads of This Century
As leaders, we always want to get the best out of our people. So it’s not surprising that many brilliant thinkers have spent a lot of time pondering management theories. When great men and women contemplate a...