Mark Taylor

Host of the "Better ROI from Software Development" podcast, Software Development Consultant, obsessive learner and very occasional canal kayaker.

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In this episode, I introduce Conway's Law, which talks about how our software structures will reflect the structures of the organisations that create them.

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@shanselman We have Phishing, Vishing, Smishing, Pharming - does Fax now give us Fishing?

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Failure in our software systems is inevitable. In this episode I look at terms like Graceful Degredation, Cascading Failure, The Retry software pattern, The Circuit Breaker software pattern, and Deadline Propagation.

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In this episode, I take a look at "Error Budgets" - what are they, and how they can help prioritise your software development efforts.

https://t.co/C4k5H9hc5f

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In this episode, I take a look at how to measure the availability of our systems; how Google uses SLIs, SLOs and SLAs, why 100% uptime might not be the correct target, and why "uptime" might not be the best indicator in the first place

https://t.co/76zXWTb6Bp

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What does the State of DevOps report say about Site Reliability Engineering practices?

In this episode:

* What is Site Reliability Engineering
* How does it relate to DevOps
* What correlation the report found in Site Reliability Engineering use

https://t.co/2ADZ0Qj0f9

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The State of DevOps report provides excellent insight through rigorous analysis of its wide reaching survey.

The research provides evidence-based guidance to help focus on the capabilities that drive performance.

One of those is Culture.

https://t.co/Il0K0vp8G4

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Why you might be interesting in this episode:

* The importance the State of DevOps report puts on Security
* The advice on how to get it right

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The State of DevOps report provides evidence-based guidance to help focus on the capabilities that drive performance.

One focus is specific DevOps Technical Practices.

https://t.co/nMPbLm7KGs

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Why you might be interesting in this episode:

* The correlation of what the survey found to great software development
* Advice to improve that Documentation

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[Mark Taylor @RedFolderMark]

The State of DevOps report provides excellent insight through rigorous analysis of its wide reaching survey.

The research provides evidence-based guidance to help focus on the capabilities that drive performance.

One of those is Cloud computing.

https://t.co/wCRSID3G7q

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The State of DevOps report provides excellent insight through rigorous analysis of its wide reaching survey.

Listen to this episode if you looking are looking for the justification "why" you invest in the effort and disruption that DevOps requires.

https://t.co/4NA5DEGMlY

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Long term listeners will have heard me use the term "Shift Left" - but what does that mean? In this episode, I take a deeper dive into the "Shift Left" principal, why modern software development advocates it, and common places to find it happening.

https://t.co/1luwfoRBo9

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How do you run your customer the perfect bath? 🛁

In this episode I illustrate the timeliness and quality of feedback through the act of providing our customer the perfect bath.

https://t.co/U5N7ih6Cm5

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What is Low Code? What is No Code? How can they help us?
I touched on this subject during the Tech Pro Unicorn episode (#114), but had a lot more notes than could be covered - thus in this episode, I take a deeper dive.
https://t.co/CkV5TE4x2j

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Should you build or buy your software?

I believe the historic bias toward buy is outdated - and probably never reduced the risk, increased speed or produced the ROI we expected.

https://t.co/tNplxb414m