Note: I first wrote this 2.5 years ago, which was about 6 months after I was first diagnosed. I wanted to update it with the things I’ve learned since. October is ADHD Awareness Month, and the original plan was to publish this then – but… SUPER META, I didn’t quite make it. When I was …
As we observe the drama and problems of the world, and also our own drama and problems, we’ve come to the conclusion that most of people’s problems come down to…pretty simple solutions. All the problems of the world can generally be solved by: have boundaries you can only control you don’t be afraid trust God …
Succeeding at Life Succeeding at life is being shiny – living, sure and certain, in your purpose that God gave you as best as you currently understand it, and letting your soul shine. Letting the joy of being you flow out of yourself and everything you do. This is hard to do, and it’s hard …
The Problem Moving stuff between Kubernetes clusters can be a pain in the butt. You have to do this when: Migrating between container platforms, such as EKS -> AKS Upgrading clusters when you want to upgrade in parallel (move everything from old to new) as opposed to upgrading in-place (update one cluster from old to …
One of the most crucial metrics of success for an enterprise application platform is if the platform can protect: a) the applications running on it, and b) itself (and its underlying infrastructure). All threats to an application platform eventually come from something within that platform – an application can be hacked, and then it attacks …
Time to Go Fast We work with a lot of people who are implementing Continuous Delivery. We see that when various bumps and boulders get out of the way of delivering software stably and rapidly, there’s a strong push to go very very fast. When this happens, there are often barricades put up in the …
There is a dream that lives in IT – it is the dream of the easy button. Push one button (or even a couple of buttons, we’re flexible!) and get immediate value. Everyone wants these easy buttons, and every software sales company wants to sell these easy buttons.
A long time ago (comparatively, time moves very oddly these days…), I (Laine) wrote this post about my experience thus far with the first church I’d ever regularly attended. Coming to Christianity as an adult has been…an experience. Especially as a strong, capable, independent, female (I wish it didn’t matter, but I’m not convinced it …
We all have good parts of our lives: fun events, good friends, adventures, trying new experiences. We all have bad parts too – deaths of people we love, arguments that end relationships, work disappointments. In my life, I have had some amazing experiences and some really low lows. Recently, however, I’ve noticed that something seemed …
We’ve talked previously about how developers drive organizational success: they deliver the applications by which companies deliver their competitive advantages. Because they are a way for companies to deliver products to customers, those delivered applications are critically valuable. Application development is a lot like extracting gold – it creates value out of raw resources. Application …