Category: Dev Culture
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Countering the Damage of Well-intentioned Misinformation
Following are some thoughts I recently had about cargo cult and Brandolini’s Law in software development. Brandolini’s Law says that the energy required to fight misinformation (or “bullshit”) is way higher than the energy required for spreading the misinformation in the first place. Cargo cult is the phenomenon where people…
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What is a DevOps Team?
A DevOps team is a development team that practices DevOps. It is not an operations team that handles deployments and build pipelines, monitoring, infrastructure, etc. for development teams. The term DevOps is a combination of the terms development and operations, but it is not just an abbreviation of “development operations”…
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Cargo Cult in Software Development
The phenomenon of cargo cult is very common in the software industry. With this article I want to raise awareness for the problem of cargo cult and provide some examples of topics that are (in my experience) especially prone to it. The goal here is not to educate about those…
Raimund Krämer 