Reasoning about Leverage in Engineering Organisations
Leverage is an important concept for an engineering organisation. When we are debating whether to standardise and on what, which technology tools and stacks to use, whether to add new technology, replace an old system with a new one, which programming languages to use and how many, under the surface we are ultimately talking about or around, the topic of leverage of technology.
Feature Flags: Smaller, Better, Faster Software Development
Feature flags let you work smaller, better, faster, with less risk. The leverage they provide makes them a first-class engineering and development approach.
Installing gRPC for Ruby on Mac OSX Yosemite
I've been looking at HTTP/2 recently along with the gRPC framework. One of the things I wanted to try out was cross language interchange. Herein some notes on getting things working for Java and Ruby on Mac OSX Yosemite, that might be of help to someone.