Diego Pacheco Tech blog

OKR(Objective and key results) is the silicon valley approach for goals and strategic planning created at Intel around the 80s. OKR is not a prescriptive and complex method or methodology, OKR is a Go-To Philosophy which is super aligned with Agile.  Objectives in OKRs are a clearly defined goal followed by 1 or more key results that are specific and help to measure if we are achieving the goal. Key results can be measure in a non-binary way(did we achieve the goal? yes or no) but actually in a 0 to 100%.  Objectives need to be supported by initiatives. Activities help us to move forward and achieve objectives. OKRs become super popular at Google. I'm a fan of google in several aspects like Psychological safety, SRE and OKRs are definitely on this list. Google said OKR help them out to growth 10x. Who is using OKRs? Intel, Google, Slack, Netflix, Yahoo, Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, and several other silicon valley companies.

 Everybody is looking for the cloud right now. Amazon Web Services(AWS) is leading and MS is getting aggressive with OSS and cloud, I think google was never competitive with cloud. The cloud market is ultra-hot . However there are lot of side effects on this let's say cloud rush. The basic one is the fact if you have a low skill operator or low skill architect this guys are dead. Because today is pretty ready to have solid and great architecture almost for free using amazon AWS. Off course there is a lock in effect on this. Amazon strategy already migrate monoliths to the cloud using lots of cloud services, dont get me wrong this services are great but you have a big infrastructure lock in with this. And depending how you do in out application you can have application lock in as well because amazon is amazon is not a RFC or a JSR spec.