Notices by Martin Fowler (mfowler@toot.thoughtworks.com), page 2

NEW POST: First part of a second article on Etsy's scaleup experience. Tim Cochran looks at how they introduced a product delivery culture

https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/etsy-product-delivery-culture.html

Exploring Mastodon: My frustration with lists

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#frustrations-with-lists

Excellent post from @timbray on Mastodonia's dislike of algorithms

"So let’s stop saying “No algorithms!” because that’s just wrong, and figure out how to get nice algorithms built, ones that primarily are there to serve humanity’s best interests."

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/28/On-Algorithms

Exploring Mastodon: Thoughts on (almost) a month of cross-posting

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#thoughts-on-(almost)-a-month-of-cross-posting

If you're a member of the Agile Alliance, and are looking for a smaller, more focused, Mastodon server, you may be interested in the one run by the Agile Alliance

https://agilealliance.social/@agilealliance/109395706656916433

“i've had some non-tech folks asking me about mastodon recently and whether they should sign up. many of you might be in the same boat tomorrow during thanksgiving.

my answer to them is no, i wouldn't sign up. not right now anyway. quick ?on why.”

https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1595545665366532102

RT @allenholub
I was just reminded of "The New Methodology," @martinfowler's novella-length post from 15 years ago. Everybody whose ever used building construction as an analog to Agile needs to read every word. Same for the pro-estimate folks.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html

Exploring Mastodon: volunteer-run instances are great, but require more work from those volunteers than most people realize

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#volunteer-moderation-means-lots-of-work

NEW § Tim and Keyur continue their experience of using the cloud to scale Etsy with the journeys of two teams: observability and ML infrastructure.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/etsy-cloud-scale.html#TheChallengesOfObservingEverything