Diego Pacheco Tech blog

IF you did not watch the Netflix show: Downfall the case against boing . Please drop everything, go watch it, then come back to my blog post. You really need to watch it. I've been following the 737-MAX drama closely since 2019. Now if you watch the Netflix show and read this link . You will see why I'm doing this blog post. Because I believe there are valuable lessons we can learn from software engineering. Let's first review the technology industry's state of affairs: Waterfall projects are everywhere, thanks to SAFE. Technical debt is never so high, and the tendency is to get even worse over time. LLMs are great but also a great way to add more technical debt faster into the systems. Now, if you think this is a rant, you are wrong. IF you think I'm overstating that SAFE is evil, go read this about what the Agile co-creators said about SAFE .

Writing software is fairly easy today.  There are Dynamic Languages, Frameworks, Libraries and lots of guides and styles about how to write good code that other humans will understand. Unfortunately, so few are captured about trade offs, this is specially hard since tech is constant change and evolution as requirements come and go is very hard to document this, so this kind of knowledge is hard to get it, specially because we are always building new things and at the scale we have different and bigger problems. The scale changes things, it creates new problems this requires a new way of thinking. There are matters like Anti-Fragility and Multi-Data center that are very hard to add it later, its way better get it from the get-go.  The hard part is that you don't know how much your business will grow and is hard for someone invest on rocket since tech before knowing where the business is going so in other words trade offs are really tough in this sense. Today it m...

DevOps is everywhere, its everybody talking about and like any hype has lots of people getting it so wrong. So DevOps is not a process, its not a tool its not a department is not a tool is not a specific technology. DevOps is about culture - how to you build and operate high scalable systems.  DevOps for me IMHO is a LEAN manifestation so its really needs be based on LEAN thinking and principles - At least i see this pattern a lot, lots of company that gets devops right are doing LEAN i dont think is a coincidence.  Unfortunately more and more companies are trying to make devops simple, easy, predictable and so scheduled, like in how many months and i be devops? 2 months? The DevOps Team  That`s the first and one of the most errors i see everywhere. You dont fix silos issues creating more silos - not at all. So before people might blame dev or might blame ops - but now people will blame the devops team so this is really just moving the problem to another place. Comp...