Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a tool for acquiring knowledge and sparking conversations on complex topics. However, as I recently discovered, there are limitations to how AI systems handle politically sensitive subjects. My experience with DeepSeek, an AI platform, highlighted how discussions around Taiwan and China are sometimes subject to unusual censorship. The
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt is a seminal book in the field of business management that explores the Theory of Constraints (TOC), a methodology for identifying and addressing bottlenecks in a system. While the book focuses on manufacturing, the principles of TOC can be applied to many different industries, including software development. In this post,
We have all heard the news about the 2022 Christmas Cold front and the devastation it has lead to across the country. One company in particular was hit hard and that was Southwest Airlines. 1000s of flights have been delayed or canceled and 1000s of people stranded across the country. This is what Gene Kim
When I first heard about DevOps around 12 years ago I was working for a company called Rally Software. When I asked one of my co-workers what DevOps meant he said “It’s when developers have root access in production”. My immediate though was “The horror!!”. For the last 12 years I’ve studyed the writings and
I recently had to spend time educating new teammates on the evolution of CI/CD. I figured I would spend sometime here sharing what that looked like. CI/CD Platforms (Crawl) The first thing I had to teach them was that a CI/CD platform is NOT a CI/CD pipeline. However this is generally where companies start when