jwdunne

reading royce made it apparent the agile movement was, in part, a response to a strawman

i have no doubt that places were practicing waterfall in the large. people running businesses, both vendor and client, want 'predictable' estimates up front, with a single timeframe, and single quote

but i suspect internally projects followed an iterative process, where designs were refined repeatedly and testing happened early. because you had to

unfortunately, those projects were still judged by a waterfall yardstick, with inflating timescales and bills, giving something for agile to attack

and on first blush, agile, the manifesto, sounds reasonable enough

but, after 30-40 years of practice to reflect upon, agile:

- has some good parts that were already well documented, i.e royce and brooks

- some radical parts of dubious general applicability and benefit

- just enough ambiguity that we have since been arguing what true agile really is

and this is what prevents it from ever really working or being the basis to solidify an engineering field around

it helped us get some of the way there but it won't help us get further and it's time to let it die

Makes sense really. The fat stores will go a longer way with less muscle. I imagine that would work brilliantly during the cold winter months living in a cave, where theres less reason to move much. Unfortunately, this is dysfunctional in the developed world.

We thought that at the SaaS I’m working at but AWS scheduled maintenance in our AZ and that led to significant downtime with nothing we could do about it, no compensation, nada. It was basically our fault because we didn’t use multi-AZ. I can’t remember if this was RDS or ECS but we figured if it could happen to one critical service in a single AZ, it could happen to another.

I think Proxy _is_ overkill and perhaps expensive for what it is. For a pg install, running pgBouncer isn’t difficult. But I guess that depends on whether you’re authenticating with IAMs, which doesn’t sound trivial with bouncer (it might be).

You’re right. Psalm has been a god send on the project I’m working on.

Unfortunately, it’s taking far too long for Laravel to catch up so parts of its API are a black hole for types.

Especially things like request input, which returns a union of string and array as opposed to using a conditional return type.

You end up with assertion soup every time you touch Laravel so over time the project uses less and less of it.

A well-typed framework and set of libraries would be very nice.

Hang on, let me cover B:

tHiS sHoUlDn’T bE oN hAcKeRnEws

Nexium, or esomeprazole, works well, or better than Zantac, and can be purchased OTC (at least here in the UK). It’s pricey but usually lasts a couple of days or more so it stretches further.