Something I’ve recently wrapped my head around is the difference between development errors versus runtime errors. For much of my career I’ve approached all errors as runtime because then you can fail gracefully. But, that’s a mistaken approach and it adds unnecessary complexity. Let’s say, for example, your web app fails to instantiate a required …
The documentation I wrote for the Git Pull requests: Alrighty! There’s a script/cron running on 172.18.18.107. It runs every 60 mins. To make a staging release: Go to DevOps or setup a pull request in CLI: Create a new pull request. Make sure You are in either od-dashboard-dev or ui_development depending on what you want …
I started writing a scheduled jobs management tool and now realize it was a mistake. The original problem I was trying to solve was “how to you setup scheduled jobs on multiple servers (dev, staging, QA/UAT, production) while also saving the run schedule to version control”. I was over-complicating this in my head and thinking …
No criteria is perfect and they inevitably take some time to refine and perfect. But! I think this is a good representation of my understanding of SDLC, my communication, and my management style.
I think we’re all sold on the idea of microservices; they reduce risk, improve maintainability, and reduce fragility. When you think about it, everything in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is all about reducing down to the small possible increment. With user stories & requirements we want to boil down to a very small, …
For those who don’t know: My employer, ITS Consulting, is a consulting company; they hire out to other businesses to solve IT/tech challenges. In 2016 I was in a near-fatal crash, while cycling home from work, that has left me with multiple challenges and thus far I’ve only been able to work part time at …
What does one do on a boring, cold, snowy Thurs night? Create dev on-boarding/training tools of course.
I’m working on an event log for a client (of my employer): At a bare minimum, an event/security log offloads some of the responsibility to the user. If you show fail and successful login attempts hopefully a user will catch when their own account has been compromised even if you can’t (I.E. their password was …
I’m facing some serious issues in my current contract position. What started as “I’m willing to work hard, full-time for 4 months to deal with these serious security flaws” has been whittled down. What I originally quoted as a project plan was 570 hours at an hourly rate. On the other hand the contract manager …
