This week
- A three-panel cartoon. In the first panel, good software delivery is taken and put in a box with “Agile” written on the front in marker pen. Then Agile is declared dead, so the box containing good software delivery has a label pasted on it to cover up the word “Agile” with...
Last week
- How to set up GitHub Actions for Pulumi when the state is stored in an AWS S3 Bucket....
- During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and why that won’t change anytime soon....
Two weeks ago
- What a busy month! Crazy at work, but also a lot of prep went into the last NN1 Dev Club meetup of the year. I’m very proud of how this little meetup idea grew to become a solid community of software engineers from the Northamptonshire area. Luckily, at the beginning of...
About a month ago
- The whole team is in a panic. Doug is frantically reviewing paperwork, and Ellis is running around with his hands in the air. “Our cloud bill is out of control,” cries Doug. “Yikes,” Ellis shouts. “An extra fifty thousand dollars every month.” “That’s odd,” one of the developers...
- The data is in. The number one requested resource on my blog which doesn’t exist is: /robots.txt According to Netlify’s analytics, that resources was requested 15,553 times over the last thirty days. Same story for other personal projects I manage: iOS Icon Gallery: 18,531...
- A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed postmortem. Also: announcing The Pragmatic Summit...
about 1 month ago
- Every company that I’ve helped start their enterprise architecture practice so far, always tell me that they might not have architecture setup yet, but they do have a ton of information in the CMDB that we can use to kickstart the exercise. The CMDB is our source of truth of all...
- I zipped up to London last night to share the Platform Engineering Pulse report with the amazing London DevOps group. Afterwards, we spent several hours talking through some of the findings and I thought I’d write up some of the results of those discussion. We’re also thinking...
- You want to paint a wall. The fastest way to start is to open the paint tin and start rolling out the color. Except that’s not the quickest way to paint a wall, as expert painters know. If you give a professional this job, they won’t touch the paint until the surface has been...
- The DX AI-assisted engineering: Q4 (2025) impact report offers one of the most substantial empirical views yet of how AI coding assistants are affecting software development, and largely corroborates the key findings from the 2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development...
about 2 months ago
- A cartoon in three frames. An e-reader is displayed, featuring a large screen and buttons for navigating pages and accessing a menu. An updated e-reader features a clean design with no buttons and a touchscreen, which makes you accidentally change page whenever you try to clear...
- Learn how to deploy n8n on Google Cloud Run with PostgreSQL and create an AI Agent using Google Gemini 2.5....
- The web-scraping arm race continues...
- Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev...
- On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage...
- Ellis and Blake are having a catch-up over a coffee. Ellis is looking a little stressed. “We hired a new product manage,” Ellis explains. “So we can be more user-centric.” “Great!” Blake responds. “How often will they speak to the users?” There’s a long silence, which gives...
- The DORA State of AI Assisted Software Development report came out recently. It's a massive 142 page report that details analysis done by the DORA team. It captures trends and observations covering a 5000 participant study that focuses on AI Adoption and tool use in the Software...
2 months ago
- Ellis is presenting to a large crowd on his AI company’s incredible forthcoming achievements. Although he’s moving and speaking, there’s a certain lifeless quality in his demeanor. “We believe this tech will solve all crucial world problems within a year,” Ellis declares to the...
- Arlo meets Murray in the corridor. Murray is looking happy and a little vacant. “I hear you do YBYR here?” Arlo asks to break the awkward silence. “What’s that?” Murray asks with a big smile on his face. “You build it, you run it,” Arlo answers. “Well,” Murray thinks. “Not...
3 months ago
- From handles to hosting....
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