friction
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🚀 Accelerating or Decelerating?
Is your work accelerating or decelerating? This may be hard to measure, but in our gut we know. A few ideas: Where do we spend our time? Moving things forward, or just keeping things afloat? Are we releasing more or less often? How about t…
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🚀 How to make releases painless
In the olden days, releases were a lot of work. The process involved manually building/testing, uploading to a distribution location, sending out notifications to interested parties, etc. Supporting multiple platforms meant even more work. …
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🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for?
Platform Thinking is for anyone who wants to take the friction out of creating, publishing, testing, integrating, and deploying products. The result? Value. Quality. Timeliness.
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📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development
When updating the Simple IoT documentation, the question arose - how to install mdbook and a few plugins? Of course pacman has part of what is needed. In the past cargo has been used, but that is slow and not a good fit for shared tools. Th…
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🥣 The two ingredients for agility
✔️ Low friction: tooling and workflows that allow anyone to make changes easily. (good build systems, clean libraries, release automation, etc.) ✔️ Confidence: what we are doing is not going to break things. (CI, end-to-end testing, review, e…
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🏆 What is the #1 purpose of YOUR Platform?
The purpose of YOUR Platform is to reduce friction in delivering value to your customers. We are in business to deliver value to our customers. If we can do this better, we can deliver more value. There are lots of ways we can do this. Auto…