scaling
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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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📦 What is a release used for?
A release needs to happen before a product is shipped to customers for sale. Across the spectrum of the product development lifecycle, releases are used for: Generate feedback (so we know where we stand) Provide something others can build …
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🌅 Why optimizing the user release experience early is so important
With Release First, the goal is to optimize the Big Blue Button (make it easy for users to use a release) early. Why is this important? There are many reasons, but the most important is so that users actually use the release and provide nee…
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📈 Scale vs. Value
As scale increases (# of people, # of technologies, # of products, # of teams, life cycle of product, experience, amount of knowledge, etc.), what does the value produced look like? Metcalfe’s law states that the financial value or influen…
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📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale
There is an ongoing shift in data analysis tools. Another example is datavzrd. datavzrd is a zero/low-code, interactive, visual, server-free, browser-based reporting tool for tabular datasets. The paper makes an interesting statement: Most…
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📈 What do we mean by scaling?
This can mean many things: More units sold More customers served More people doing the work More features More innovation More models produced More model options More quality We could go on, but basically we mean more of something over ti…
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🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy
We’ve recently explored the idea that composing simple things is the way to scale. But this is harder than just cranking something out. Some examples: It is much easier to create an Excel spreadsheet than write a Python script to process a…
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🌱📈 Simplicity scales
When programming, we learn that simple interfaces and simple data structures are good, because they are flexible. Simple file formats are the same. We can do way more with a CSV or Markdown file in terms of presentation and automation than …
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📈 Why GUI development tools don't scale
This is an interesting read: GUIs are Antisocial This hits on an important point… GUI tools don’t scale, because they are not social. Two of the most complex efforts humans have accomplished are chip design and software development – both a…
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⚖️ Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
In the context of product development: Horizontal Scaling: Selling more units, getting more customers. Vertical Scaling: Add value to already sold/deployed units. Bigger vs. Better – both are valid ways to scale and produce value. In this…
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👌 Struggling to scale your IoT system? Simplify your data.
I recently published a new blog article about IoT data. Have you struggled with adapting your IoT system to new applications and requirements? Is handling configuration updates at both the cloud and edge a challenge? Is synchronizing requir…
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📈 Scaling
We often think of scaling as growing a company’s size or the number of units sold/deployed/etc. That is one way to provide value to the world. However, there are other ways to scale: improving the experience improving reliability/security …
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📈 Two ways to scale
Scaling is the goal of many businesses – grow revenue, serve more people, sell more devices, grow the product line, etc. There are two ways to scale: Increase volume with a small number of direct customers. You might be making an integrat…