Data engineering tech at Unruly

Data engineering began at Unruly with a product experiment as with many of the products we build. As an…

Hierarchical Java Configuration

Hard-coding secrets in application code is not ideal.

It makes rolling them hard by coupling them to an artifact, and is not particularly secure, if the artifact itself is compromised.

Lights are out down memory lane (part 1)

Lessons from reflecting on how my lack of memories affect life

Take a moment to think back to your childhood… picture a memory… describe it in as much detail as you can… How vivid is it? Can…

Please say “NO”

For a while now, I’ve had the feeling that the teams reporting to me are trying to do too much. I’ve been taking an analytical approach, building up a list of things the teams are doing and reflecting on our planning process to get some insight into how we reached our current workload — and to some…

Accountability, Collaboration and Self Organization

Every organisation, every team, and every individual deals with issues of accountability, but we don’t stop and specifically talk about accountability very much at all. There seems to be some unspoken assumption that accountability is…

Experiments in making my role redundant: from Team Test Lead to Team Member

Getting started in machine learning

Someone at work recently asked me about getting started in the field of machine learning…

Detecting when you’re in IntelliJ

How do you make your tests aware if you’re running them from your IDE or not? That’s what I’ve been wrestling with, and there were some surprising results, so I thought it would be worth sharing.

Come do XP at Unruly

Would you like to work in a team where XP is treated seriously? Would you like to work in a great physical environment with great colleagues? Would you like to work for me? Would you like to be an XP/Agile coach in an environment like that?