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The (in)sanity of performance testing web applications
Learn about the functional and technical challenges of achieving realistic and useful performance tests.
Should architecture be constrained by reality?
Should architects make decisions with the constraints of available capacity in mind? Or should they strive to ignore the reality and pursue only the best solutions?
9 tips to get your distributed teams to collaborate effectively
I’ve seen a lot of prior attempts to out-source work to remote teams fail, have always wondered what was the main reason for this. Is it a culture thing? Is it the time difference. In this post, I describe the things we do ourselves that have made our remote team endeavors pretty successful for t...
A surprisingly accurate model to improve your communication skills
It may be coincidence, but the two best tutorials I attended at Agile DevOps East both ran on the same day. The first one focused mostly on agile transformation, but briefly touched on the leadership topic. This one, let by Jennifer Bonine, took this further by focusing on being a better leader b...
About smooth agile transformations and the “why” leader
For my annual conference trip, I decided to skip the always-great QCon conference for once and instead attend Agile DevOps East in Orlando, Florida. In addition to the typical conference schedule, I also registered for some of the half-day and full day tutorials. One of them, How to lead high-per...
Hoe de IT markt het jonge talent te veel heeft verwend
Het was januari 1997. Ik was net afgestudeerd van de HTS Electrotechniek. Trots als een pauw op mijn ingenieurstitel én die dikke 9 voor mijn afstudeeropdracht bij - toen nog - Philips Semiconductors, ging ik op zoek naar een job. Maar dat viel nog niet mee. Philips had een aannamestop en van rec...