Benjamin Wootton / London
Better software, written down.
I am a consultant in London. This is a working notebook on robust Java systems, agile process improvement, developer testing and DevOps.
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On Developer Hiring: The Elephant In The Room
The software industry is obsessed with hiring. The uncomfortable truth is that most developers can do most corporate jobs, so perhaps we should spend more time fixing the organisation than chasing unicorns.
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- 02 Continuous Delivery Using Cloud Development Tools A browser is now enough to run a serious deployment pipeline. These are the cloud tools I was using to move code from editor to production. Software6 September 2013
- 03 How Maven Enforces Good Habits Maven is more than a build tool. Its lifecycle quietly pushes a Java team toward automation, testing and consistency. Software13 January 2013
- 04 Why DevOps Matters To Developers DevOps is usually discussed by operations people. Developers have just as much to gain from production awareness, reliability thinking and infrastructure as code. Software8 December 2012
- 05 How To Do Rollback Well Rollback is often treated as an afterthought. In practice it is one of the simplest ways to make software delivery more robust. Software21 July 2012
- 06 Configuring Hadoop On EC2 A step by step guide to getting a first Hadoop cluster running on Amazon EC2, written for people who just want to submit a MapReduce job. Software3 June 2012
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I specialise in robust, high performing systems, typically using Java and Oracle, and in helping software teams improve the process around the code. The writing here comes from that work.
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