Comsysto’s Fast & Curious
Welcome to our first edition of Comsysto’s Fast & Curious! We, the Comsysto colleagues, decided to gather all the interesting blogs, articles and events that we shared among ourselves within the last month and spread these to the public community. Since knowledge sharing is very important to us, we want you to benefit from it too.
This month we point to maximizing value in a software product by looking onto user stories, talked about why and when Daily Standups are useless, got informed by Johannes about Raycast for Mac users and got an update on handling stress. Jure also shared nice insights with us about how to set up & run Jenkins instance locally in minikube and Ivan drew our attention to cost of cloud and why big companies may change their infrastructure strategies. And last but not least, some random and funny stuff shouldn’t be missing: Life of a Programmer Explained with Humor, user story fails and O’rly books collection.
Might be nothing new to most of you, but it perfectly summarizes a lot about what I just recently learned about user stories and how to maximize value in a software product. I like Dave and the content on his channel, really worth while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HMsh459h5c
Daily Standup Meetings are useless, don’t waste time in useless agile status update. Here are a few tips to improve productivity and communication in your team. https://dev.to/dvddpl/daily-standup-meetings-are-useless-1kie
For the Mac users among us: Raycast has gained quite some traction over the last year, it’s a productivity app similar to Alfred. You can use it to launch apps, open bookmarks, search for files, window management, running scripts, etc. It’s still free and the ecosystem is growing. I’m currently using it alongside Alfred to see whether it could at some point fully replace it.
Stressed in your job? Read this: https://ideas-ted-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-rest-that-every-person-needs/amp/
If you’re ever in need to set up & run Jenkins instance locally in minikube Kubernetes and do it in just 5 minutes … (ok, you can expect 10 with troubleshooting), then check this out: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/kubernetes/
Interesting article on the cost of cloud, outlining why we might start seeing big companies moving (some of) their infrastructure away from the cloud back to on-premise: https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/04/the-cost-of-cloud-a-trillion-dollar-paradox/
Random and funny stuff
Life of a programmer explained with humor. Some are quite funny and true at the same time: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/life-of-a-programmer-explained-with-humour-a9181e1d6559
We learned about user stories today in the scrum training (this is what Marco and Franziska, our Agile Trainers from Comsysto, were trying to explain): https://twitter.com/shituserstory
Discover voodoods2’s collection on O’rly books: https://www.pinterest.de/voodoods2/orly-books/
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