Wed, Oct 14 2020

Dan*, a partner at a major Boston law firm, was due at the office, but instead, he was curled on his bathroom floor, unshaven and in his pajamas, crying into a towel. It began slowly, in a meeting with a particularly pushy client, when a thought…

Set the first and last books in Cory Doctorow's epic, three-book Little Brother cypherpunk saga side-by-side, and they read a bit like a creative writing master class on telling two starkly opposite stories from the same prompt. The common premise:…

Google's engineering directors are grappling with a worrisome trend: internal data that indicate productivity during the coronavirus shutdowns deteriorated among engineers, particularly newly hired ones. One internal survey viewed by The…

For a few years now, serverless computing has been predicted by some to usher in a new age of computing that thrives without an operating system to execute applications. We were told this framework would solve a multitude of scalability problems.

U.K. employment took a hit even after the government started to lift restrictions to control the coronavirus as companies stepped up job cuts. The number of redundancies increases by 227,000 in the June-August period -- the most since 2009, the…

Years ago, Google struggled with how to pitch its cloud offerings. Back in 2017 I suggested that the company should help mainstream enterprises to “run like Google,” but in a conversation with a senior Google Cloud product executive…

We're in 2020 and long past the days back when we used to stand outside the school library to get the opportunity to copy two or three Encyclopedia pages, to use as a kind of reference for our school projects. With this age having grown up with the…

Welcome to the 263rd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 27,516 peers. This week, we delve into how UX can support engineering sanity; we study a recent survey among CIOs on technical debt, and we learn about options of…

I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is as easy – and easily estimatable – as building a fence. Would that it were so. One destructive side effect of this…

You may have heard of the working agreement that “when one is remote, all should be remote”. This agreement applies to remote hybrid teams where some team members may be in the office and some team members are either working from home…