Adam HarwoodNobody Knows How To Work Remotely (yet)Though obvious in hindsight, I did not foresee the strong correlation between a rise in COVID-19 and a corresponding rise in hot-takes on…Oct 22, 2021Oct 22, 2021
Adam HarwoodRandomness in Unit Tests is your friendI had a good conversation with colleagues at Elastic recently about randomness in unit tests. I will omit the exact context, but I wrote a…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
Adam HarwoodWhat I learnt at AmazonI finished a 5 year stint at Amazon in June 2018. I want to summarise my experiences there as a means to learn from it. I haven’t done…Apr 9, 2019Apr 9, 2019
Adam HarwoodMandatory code reviews considered harmful (by me)This is my attempt to convince you that mandatory peer code reviews are harmful. Of the contentious opinions I hold this one (strangely)…May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
Adam HarwoodServerless and its tradeoffsWhen I first heard of Serverless I thought it was a dumb idea. The implication that the servers had been magic-ed away angered me on a deep…Mar 13, 2018Mar 13, 2018
Adam HarwoodThe Safety Anarchist — My thoughtsI worry that I don’t get as much out of the books that I read because I rarely take the time to reflect on them at the end. I’m too eager…Feb 26, 2018Feb 26, 2018
Adam HarwoodLeanCoffee and StorytellingMost people at work are just trying to get through their day. They had a bad sleep the night before, because they were worried they…Feb 12, 2018Feb 12, 2018
