Tagged: developer-experience
12 posts
Sustainable Velocity: Why Clarity Is Making a Comeback
Software ideas tend to come full circle. We once believed in documenting early to gain clarity, then Agile shifted the focus to “working software over comprehensive documentation.” That shift made sense, but in practice some teams interpreted it as documentation not mattering at all.
When Coding Becomes Cheap, Experience Becomes Rational Again
For decades, software teams faced a trade-off: build the best experience, or build something affordable. Native applications offered quality and performance, but they were expensive. So the industry optimized for economics. The web and cross-platform frameworks were good enough, and good enough won. That constraint is now shifting. With AI-assisted development, implementation is becoming cheap. Machines can generate working software quickly. What they cannot generate is clarity. Intent, structure, domain models, and behavior are now the real bottlenecks.
Surfing the Void: A Code Meditation
Sometimes, coding isn’t about solving a problem. Sometimes it’s just a quiet way to sit with the absurd, sip your coffee, and let the rain do its thing. This one’s for those Sunday afternoons when the…
CFOs: Are you ready to let go and trust AI?
I’ve never wanted to sky dive or do a bungee jump, but when I read some industry commentary it feels like this is what CFOs are being asked to do when it comes to investing in AI tools . For example,…
Small is beautiful in uncertain times
We are entering a period of experimentation and innovation as the latest crop of cutting edge technologies mature and are adopted at scale. This moment could be a huge opportunity for smaller…
How Low-Code And No-Code Software Impact The Future Of Development
Programming is sometimes seen as more of a "dark art" than an engineering discipline. Developing programs that can be read and used by non-programmers is an "El Dorado" that many businesses have…
Programming won’t go away but extensibility is a worthwhile substitute for many tasks
Programming has made more farewells than Frank Sinatra , but the difference being that “Old Blue Eyes” eventually played one final concert, whereas programming isn’t going to go away.
Auto-tech series - Unit4: Data fundamentals first, automation second
There is a lot of excitement about technology’s potential to automate tasks making our lives easier and freeing us up to do more fun things. ChatGPT is the latest in a long line of excited debates –…
Integration Isn’t Enough: The Business Case for Integration-as-a-Service
Organizations use a variety of applications to handle business tasks, and at the center of many point solutions is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In an ideal state, data from various…
What You’re Getting Wrong About DevOps (and How To Make it Right)
DevOps is now the top software deployment strategy by a mile — 77% of organizations say they use the approach to roll out new software. This is good news because a DevOps approach is an important…
Why DevOps Is The Next Step In Your Business Evolution (And How To Get It Right)
DevOps means that the running and maintenance of software is considered when it’s being built—an approach that’s slowly grown in popularity due to its many advantages. Since Salesforce became the…
The low-no-code series - Unit4: 3 reasons low-code is over-hyped
I have worked in the IT industry for many years and sometimes it’s hard not to become a little weary of the hype around the latest trends. Low-code/no-code is one of those trends where hype can…