Letting your CEO deploy to production

Letting your CEO deploy to production

Recently our CEO Raj Kumar spent a week in our Barcelona office where the majority of our engineering department is located. I was working on some ideas for him to meet the team and get some insights into our daily work. While most of the company is aware of UI/UX and front-end changes we are doing to our site, some of the back-end and infrastructure work can seem like black magic. I think it is important to take every opportunity to bring this output closer to the rest of the company and especially the leadership. ...

March 27, 2020 · 3 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links

Wheeler: How to Prevent the next Heartbleed http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/heartbleed.html Rails 3.2.18, 4.0.5 and 4.1.1 have been released! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/5/6/Rails_3_2_18_4_0_5_and_4_1_1_have_been_released/ Is TDD Dead? The big fight live! https://plus.google.com/events/ci2g23mk0lh9too9bgbp3rbut0k Atlassian: Moving from roadmaps to requirements http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/moving-roadmaps-requirements/ Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/5/7/update-on-disqus-its-still-about-realtime-but-go-demolishes.html

May 9, 2014 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Friday Links Double Bill

Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/are-your-programmers-working-hard-or.html Emulation in Chrome DevTools http://youtu.be/z7sTRdSpA04 22 Crazy Perks You Should Ask Your Boss For (spot the ones we already enjoy) http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131203162756-5799319-22-crazy-perks-you-should-ask-your-boss-for The Guardian responsive front-end open sourced https://github.com/guardian/frontend Performance Calendar: Reducing Domain Sharding http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/reducing-domain-sharding/ Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 have been released! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/ github: Expanding context in diffs https://github.com/blog/1705-expanding-context-in-diffs Devops road at Tuenti https://vimeo.com/album/2565361/video/76750531 How to initiate a DevOps Transformation (Video) http://dev2ops.org/2013/12/how-to-initiate-a-devops-transformation-video/ Baruco 2013: Building a Culture of Quality, by Bryan Helmkamp http://youtu.be/Jsi1YTkXwxA

December 13, 2013 · 1 min · Christof Damian