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Automate deployment - even for small systems

Graeme Pietersz — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:02:17 GMT

One of the clients who I have been working for in the last few weeks has far more automated deployment than the others. It makes a huge productivity difference. This was not only because it was one of two server migrations I did, although that did make the difference starker, it was the continual time savings.

Technical debt from a business persepective

Graeme Pietersz — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:41:40 GMT

Technical debt tends to be talked about, and worried about, more by developers than by those running a business or looking after its finance. The problem is that not taking it into account will lead to bad decisions.

The problem with SaaS

Graeme Pietersz — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:25:46 GMT

SaaS (software as a service) is extremely popular right now, and it can solve a lot of problems. It means someone else takes responsibility for maintenance and security. Of course nothing is ever that easy a win.

So, what are the problems? Our experience is that there are three, two of which are closely linked: