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Growing the Company
Recent conversations on going public have reminded me that some assume taking a company public is inherently, completely good, necessary to being Important in the Industry. Here’s a few reasons why that is not always true, noting that I am not a financial professional. Posit that the natural course of a successful company is to…
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DURSLEy and CAPS
Monitoring and metrics! Theoretically any system that a human cares about could be monitored with these three patterns: LETS USE RED I’m hardly the first to notice there’s overlap… here’s a good starting point to read from. I haven’t seen these compressed to a single metric set yet, probably from not looking hard enough. Or because…
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Licensing thoughts, round two
License Models Suck got a lot of interesting conversations started (and there’s a roundup page), time to revisit from the customer’s perspective. Let’s also be clear, this is enterprise sales with account reps and engineers: self-service models are for another day. As a vendor, the options I describe seem clearly different; but as a customer…
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Phases of Data Modeling
Phase 1 – it works for me Phase 2 – it works for my team Phase 3 – it works for my role in other teams Say that you want to use some data to answer a question. You’ve got a firewall, it’s emitting logs, and you make a dashboard in your logging tool to…
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Weekly Status
People are creatures of habit, and effective work is produced by grooming useful habits. Here’s a quick write up of a useful habit: the weekly status report. I haven’t always written these, and I haven’t always worked for people who’ve wanted to receive them, but I’ve been at my most effective when I was writing…
