Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Picture the scene: you have a new project to start working on and deliver in a relatively short amount of time. You have done lots of research, know the problem to be solved, have worked diligently on whittling down the scope to just the bare elements that will prove or disprove the utility of the idea. You know how long it will take to build a first iteration, have a pretty good idea of how to…
Perhaps you are familiar with the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar - I really like it as a useful summary of global technology trends and what I should be looking at familiarising myself with. Even the stuff on the "hold" list (such as Scaled Agile Framework - sometimes anti-patterns are equally useful to understand and appreciate). There's a degree of satisfaction in seeing your favourite technology rise…
I haven't posted anything for quite some time (which I feel a little bad about), so this is something of a randomly-themed catch-up post. According to my LinkedIn profile I've been doing this engineering management thing for about two years, which at least provides some explanation for a relative lack of technical-oriented blog posts. Of course in that time I have certainly not revoked my Github…