I read or listen at least one book per two weeks. I want to share the list with you. First of all it is always worth to recommend good book. Second I hope you could help me. Please write your suggestion into comments. Books from Q1 This quarter list: Time Management Made Simple by Brian […]

I read or listen at least one book per two weeks. I want to share the list with you. First of all it is always worth to recommend good book. Second I hope you could help me. Please write your suggestion into comments. Thanks and happy reading. This quarter list: Crossing the charm by Geoffrey A. […]

In Part one we talked about problems with productivity, when adding more resources, introducing better processes like scurm don’t help. In Part two we focus on Work In Progress, when paradoxically  the more we want to do, the less actually work is done. In order to fix Work in Progress of the team, we often what to […]

In Part one we talked about problems with productivity instead of great support from community, adding more resources, introducing scurm or other lean processes. We end up with resource efficiency (engineers), today we follow the next problem with throughput.  In every company there are more project, more important things to do than people. The number of projects […]

I had talked with friend, he was worried that his team was not delivering so fast that he was expected. He used to be a programmer, he is a manager today, and he remembers that “at that time” he delivers much faster, than it is delivered right now. He is confused because after all, the […]

Web performance is always very important to me. Browser need to download more and more resources to render full page. On one hand we want our pages look gorgeous on the other hand this means more images, more bandwidth and of course more time. In todays mobile world this become even more important, we are in the hurry and […]

In last few weeks there was a lot of NoSQL hype, with more and more information about companies which migrate from rational databases such MySQL to NoSQL solution. There are a lot of pretty awesome NoSQL solution on the market, but from my point of view the most promising is Cassandra. Originally Cassandra was developed […]

Amazon CloudFront is Content Delivery Network (CDN) and more as it is integrated and optimized to work with other AWS services. By using edge locations of Amazon’s DCs we can cache our content and deliver it with low latency. It doesn’t meter if the content is static (S3 object) or dynamic (EC2 service). We can […]

There was a time when I did some JVM tuning. It’s time to reactivate the part of the brain responsible for this activity. The key principle is to prepare a baseline. What is it? The baseline refers to: the first measuring mechanisms (np. gc.log) – we should measure on different levels (cpu, I/O, database etc) […]

In my wunderlist‘s “watch this” list I found this dinosaur movie to watch: MDA: A forlorn hope. by Uncle Bob. It was posted over two years ago and it was viewed almost 55 thousand times. MDA is easy isn’t it? The MDA Guid has only 62 pages. We need some modeling tools and another tool for […]

During the Polish Long Weekend (actually very long), I had some speare time. I had great time with family, so after my little devils felt asleep. I though: “Let me see what I have in my draft post list” (which it is huge btw). One of interesting entry from January is “Hardening Wrodpress”. Finish it! The story […]