(intro to this post on devops) It has been a busy few months. Since my last post I have transitioned to a new role as part of day to day development (see linkedin.com/in/greger for more details) in the Collaboration Infrastructure Technology Group (UC, telephony, telepresence, conferencing, etc) in Cisco. Earlier, as part of Office of […]
A short comment on devops (and an intro…)
A few words about devops and as an introduction to my next post: Hosted services used to be developed and deployed very similar to how products are released (see figure). There was a development phase, then an integration and test phase, then the component would be released and installed, including going through one or more […]
But hey, geek, what’s the real value of all this multi stream stuff?!
In a slightly more polite way, that is what I have been told after my blog series on a next generation multi stream real-time video architecture. Bummer, wasn’t that obvious from my posts…?! The concept is simple, instead of each video participant sending one video stream and receiving one with either all participants or the […]
Collaboration – what is it really?!
Do people really understand what they do when they “collaborate”? Do they know how to use technology to achieve what they want? How do collaboration tools affect things like goal setting, prioritisation, conflict resolution, production, creativity, and all the other dynamics found in a team trying to solve a problem or deliver something? Fun fact […]
Let’s forget about architecture and just get things done!
In my previous posts on architectural debt, I focused on the engineering side. This post focuses more on the management side, or the organisational “gearing” factors that prevent systematic technical debt reduction. You don’t have to know what distributed system architecture debt is to get any value out of this post, but if you want […]
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