Month: July 2014

Comparison: manual releases or automated?

I recently wrote about tradeoffs in automation. I thought it’d be nice to have a side by side comparison of manually documenting and releasing software, versus automation. Manual Documentation Automation Assumptions Many implicit assumptions. No incentive to be explicit. Author bias and perspective limit the utility. Everything is explicit, no assumptions. Culture This approach fosters a culture of cracking the…

Tradeoffs in Automation

Releasing software, to this day, is often a manual task. Scripts may be involved, but we still depend on human orchestration. Knowledge often remains locked away in individual minds. This is disastrous for many reasons. Even if we remember everything, each time we repeat a task there will be slight variations. After a few days, let alone months or years,…

The Death Of An Idea

“What if…?” The birth of an idea. Followed by the perpetuity of tortuous wonder about when to act on it. Fading in and out of consciousnesses every other day, or week if we’re lucky. We’re constantly wallowing in a sea of ideas. We can’t possibly drop everything and act on every idea that comes to mind. And, if we hope…