Evaluate Your Software Function

Apr 25, 2025

How to evaluate your software function’s health

Monitoring Is Testing

Apr 10, 2025

Understanding your live services through monitoring.

Improve your cybersecurity posture

Apr 2, 2025

A castle analogy for how to improve your cybersecurity profile.

Load Testing and Failover

Mar 26, 2025

You might be doing load testing and failover wrong.

How to overcome barriers to get funding

Mar 20, 2025

What are the main barrier to getting funding and how to overcome them?

What investors worry about?

Mar 12, 2025

What investors worry about? … And how to tip the scales in your favour.

Older articles

• What investors worry about?
  Mar 12, 2025

  What investors worry about? … And how to tip the scales in your favour.

• Lean / Kanban or How to Get Things Done
  Mar 7, 2025

  What is kanban? What are the good and bad of it, and should you adopt it?

• CTOs: Avoid A Serious Own Goal
  Feb 20, 2025

  Downsizing and reorganizing can come with some severequite serious missteps. Read more to find out how to avoid those.

• Tech (Business) debt
  Feb 12, 2025

  Tech debt is Business debt … And the interest rate is brutal. First part of a series of posts.

• How to keep MFA backup tokens?
  Feb 5, 2025

  Five ideas ranked from worst to best security.

• How to Choose a Password Manager
  Jan 29, 2025

  This is a simple guide to finding the perfect password manager for your needs.

• What Makes a Good Password?
  Jan 22, 2025

  Of course, it is something easy for you to remember and hard for a machine to guess.

• Alert fatigue in Cybersecurity and Operations
  Jan 16, 2025

  Alert fatigue is a common problem in cybersecurity and operations. Here are some strategies for dealing with alert fatigue.

• Basic Cybersecurity
  Jan 9, 2025

  What are the three simplest things you can do to improve your cybersecurity?

• Eternal Truths
  Dec 18, 2024

  Eternal truths about how complex systems fail. A must read for anyone in operations or adjacent fields.

• The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of AI Generated code
  Dec 9, 2024

  What are some good, some bad, and some ugly issues of using AI generated code in your codebase.

• State of DevOps Operations
  Nov 21, 2024

  The DORA 2024 report is out, so let’s take a quick look.

• Development and Leadership Lessons from DORA
  Nov 21, 2024

  These are our reactions to the DORA 2024 report on Development and Leadership matters.

• Securing our World Together
  Oct 3, 2024

  A review of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) cybersecurity hygiene guidelines.

• Microsoft Secure Future Initiative
  Sep 26, 2024

  Our thoughts on the Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) six key security pillars.

• Part of the Crowd
  Jul 24, 2024

  While we were discussing the recent Crowdstrike incident, we touched on the topic of what it would take to be immune to such problems. I’ll give you the TL;DR — it’s hard.