Estimation and unknowns for Product Managers and Engineers

Figuring out how long things take isn’t easy. In the worst circumstances it can lead to conflict and bad feeling between people.

MasterFlow — Simple Git Branching

It’s the stuff a techies dreams are made of, you start work on a new project and get to decide what branching strategy to apply! However your dream can quickly become a nightmare if you choose a common or well known branching strategy without really considering the…

Magic. My Macbook has been stolen.

My work Macbook got stolen. The how isn’t important really, thankfully it didn’t involve any violence. But the aftermath is what I hope will be interesting for people.

Managing costs on Amazon Web Services

The original article was written in 2017. All of the below recommendations are still valid.

However, since the article was first published AWS released a lot of new features and products to help customers better manage their cloud…

The Data Storage Revolution

Life used to be relatively simple for the architect who wanted to store data somewhere. The relational database management system (RDBMS) was the world-conquering gold standard. All you really had to do was pick between proprietary and open source, and then a select few vendors…

Ten tips to succeed in an Interview

Interviewer 1: “Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application?”

Always Learning

What have you learned in the last six months?