Rant

Of Gardening and Engineering

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
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Perl is $schrödinger_state

I’ll tell you a secret. I am a huge Perl fan. Always was, ever since I started my developer career in the early 90s. And even though I have programmed in, probably, dozen of other languages since then and Perl has, in all fairness, become the COBOL of the 21st century — it still…

What DevOps is not

DevOps has been a hot topic in the industry for some time now. A lot of people been talking about it. Some have built business models around DevOps-related tools and themes. There are even conferences and trade shows dedicated to DevOps-oriented things. People have made career around talking…

[something] DevOps

Yesterday, at the #watercooler, we were talking about the principals of DevOps (and how they were applied before the term was cool) and sharing war stories about organizations that preferred to intentionally wall off individual technology groups. Conversation turned to how running the code in…

How to make enemies

Every developer blames his or her predecessor. Whenever we get to work on, or maintain, a codebase that was developed by…

Blame game

Every technologist has a technology preference. PHP vs Perl, MySQL vs PostgreSQL, Chef vs Puppet, Microsoft vs … well, pretty much everyone…

Your code may be elegant

… but mine f***ing works