Effective Use of Slack

A lot of us are using Slack now. Some of us are past the shiny and into misery, where we wish for the good old days of email and talking with our mouths.

Let’s look at this technology thoughtfully, and see whether we can corral it into helpfulness. Dan North gave…

Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Run Development From Slack

No More Copy/Paste

How do you start a new project? Perhaps you start with an empty project and copy/paste relevant content. Or maybe you start…

Change Is the Only Constant in a REST API

“It can’t be broken!” I exclaim. “No one has changed a line of code in my service for weeks.”

But the alerts don’t lie. At least not if they’re configured correctly. And the alerts say “we’re hosed.” A look at the logs lets me know…