Stephen Janaway
@stephenjanaway
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Technology leader, conference speaker, general software type person. Quality biased. VP Engineering at Bloom & Wild. All views expressed are mine.
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Joined January 2008
Full technical breakdown as to why Crowdstrike's update caused a worldwide BSOD – crashing computers at Airports, Banks, Casinos, 911, Hospitals and more. 🧵 (1/n)
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@sinnet3000 We will know later, but based on this information: How is Crowdstrike NOT doing staged rollouts of any software change/update?? Meaning you roll it out to a tiny % first, larger group after, all the way to 100%. You see issues like this and pause / rollback! Deploy to prod 101
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This was a lot of fun. Thanks so much for the opportunity
And we are down to our last keynote with @stephenjanaway speaking on ‘Return of the Rockstars? Building Great Teams In Challenging Times’ #AOTB2024
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Excellent read
How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on the planet — A few weeks ago OpenAI released GPT-4o ushering in a new standard for multimodal, conversational experiences with sophisticated reasoning capabilities. Several days later, my good friends at PolyAI
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Great day at @TheLeadDev LeadingEng. The allocated seats at a table and mix of all attendee workshops and talks worked really well. They'd clearly been a lot of care taken with the programme 👏👏👏
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Simple 😁
How Buffett and Munger set incentives: Everyone has heard: "Show me the incentives -- and I'll show you the outcome" But what do good incentives actually look like? Here's the incentive system Buffett and Munger used for GEICO: 1. Principal-Agent Problem Principal =
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I'm looking forward to LeadingEng London next Thursday, where I'll be hosting a discussion about 'Becoming a VP of Engineering' #conferences #speaker #engineeringleadership
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My first time speaking at @AgileCambridge in October. I'm rather looking forward to it 😁
agilecambridge.net
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"HEY today has some 300-odd system tests. We're going to cut that number way down. The sunk cost fallacy has kept us running this brittle, cumbersome suite for too long. Time to cut our losses, reduce system tests to a much smaller part of the equation."
world.hey.com
When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In theory, system tests, which drive a headless browser through your actual interface, offer greater...
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Very insightful experience of building healthy high performing teams by @stephenjanaway at @ncraftsConf #newcrafts
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Some thoughts on day 1 of @ncraftsConf 2/2 Testing is alive and well. Mostly. Quality is important. Overall, a really engaging and fun day
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Some thoughts on day 1 of @ncraftsConf Some people see the opportunity of LLMs and generative AI. So see the risks to software development as we know it these days. Some think that nothing will change. People deliver software. Most things are a people problem to solve. 1/2
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I'm off to @ncraftsConf 🇫🇷 today. I'll be speaking on Friday about ways to sustain high performing teams
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I keep saying that AI tools going mainstream have upsides with new use cases. But many downsides are devastating: job applications becoming overloaded by AI-submitted ones, thus harder to get jobs by directly applying is one.
“AI Bots Are Taking Over the Job Application Process. Everyone Is Losing” @wsj Yet another way in which LLMs are poisoning daily life for many people; as ever, the big AI companies reap the profits and society bears the costs.
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https://t.co/NMWthdn59h CfP for @LeanAgileScot is open 😁
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I like this idea of a year in review. Or six months in review. Or indeed any period of time in review 😁
hbr.org
While the reality of work can feel especially overwhelming at the end of the year, reflection is the key to doing things differently in the year to come. Taking the time to pause and review your year...
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Very interesting reading
🏢💻 The proximity paradox: Working next to your colleagues boosts long-term knowledge sharing but may dent your short-term output. Being in the same space meant 22% more feedback for engineers. The cost? A 23% dip in productivity. More: https://t.co/Cv7MRhifUo
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