PinnedSociotechnical Lenses into Software SystemsSoftware systems are sociotechnical. I don’t think software professionals spend enough time discussing the challenges that span software and personal aspects. When we look at software through a sociotechnical lens, we begin to appreciate the complexity inherent in software development and operations. The systems we are building and operating are…Software Engineering6 min readSoftware Engineering6 min read
Aug 29, 2020Questions I Keep AskingThis is also published on my personal site: https://paulosman.me/2020/08/29/questions-i-keep-asking.html Software is a big space and in the span of a career, you can move in a bunch of different directions, all interesting to different people. As I approach my 20th year as a professional software person, I thought it’d be…Distributed Systems7 min readDistributed Systems7 min read
Dec 30, 2019Member-onlyProduction Oriented DevelopmentAlso published at https://paulosman.me/2019/12/30/production-oriented-development.html Throughout my career, I’ve developed some opinions. Some have worn particularly deep ruts, reinforced by years of experience. I tried to figure out what these had in common, and it’s the idea that code in production is the only code that matters. Staging doesn’t matter, code…DevOps10 min readDevOps10 min read
