Tag: Products
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Observing System Failures
The system is down, and half a dozen teams join a Zoom call that stretches over a couple of days and a Slack channel that lasts for weeks. Vendors and integration partners are bridged in and out, executives pop by to see what’s going on, and the hours pass with…
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SIEM’s not Dead, It’s Only Disrupted
The old SIEM vision was “put everything in one hot pile and index the hell out of it and then run out of the box content over it so you can pivot from known to unknown questions smoothly”… which sounds lovely until you have to pay for it. In that…
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Building Products Isn’t Linear
You know that graphic about building a car that goes through steps from skateboard to car as the Right Way to Do It? I’ve always been bugged by something in that. To wit: each of the five steps is its own fully realized engineering project. They’re arguably smaller than the…
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Software Architecture Humble Bundle Review
Humble bundles are just a huge grab bag of roughly related stuff — which is tough to work with. They’re great for getting access to a bunch of stuff in order to find out what you’re interested in or get a quick overview of a field. Here’s short reviews of…
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Default Alive or Default Dead
Lots of people are job-hunting these days. In conversations with friends about the companies they’re talking with, there’s a useful distinction to reflect on: Is the company default alive, or default dead? In other words, if everyone stopped writing new features, would the company immediately implode, or just sort of…
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Haas Product Con 2024 Review
This was a 300 person conference put on by the Product Management Club at UC Berkeley’s MBA program. About half students, half professionals (heavy on UCB alumni). I heard of it through Rands Leadership Slack but most people that I talked with heard about it through Lenny’s PM List. I…
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GTM is like SDLC
Craft construction and factory construction are different ways to achieve the same goal. If you want a table, you can craft one by selecting lumber and using a wide variety of carpentry skills to shape and sand and varnish a table. Or you can select an item from a table…
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Small Data 2024 Review
This week I went to the Small Data conference. It was really interesting, here are some rough notes. Big Data is Not a Number Jordan Tigani, MotherDuckRuns over the history of cloud systems development: horizontal scale instead of vertical scale, tools to manage emergent complexity, frameworks to manage complex tools.…
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When Does Architecture Matter
I’m thinking of two orgs that did cloud by oh shit lift and shift and then rebuilt everything with more cloud-native architectures. The first org planned and executed that rebuild as a company-wide effort. They mandated, “We will all focus all our effort on doing this The Right Way (TM)”…
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Software Bubbles
You know what I love about software? For any problem, there’s a solution that will automate doing a half-ass job on the easy parts of the problem, and a bubble based on claims that it will solve the whole problem and a couple of ancillary problems along the way. There’s…
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