So what they're saying is they can be automated and should be let go for cost efficiencies.

How often have you joined a new team or worked with someone more experienced and they've said "Just use a ......"

Just use a queue. Just use an outbox. Oh, for that you just need to use the saga pattern.

Fear not, I've got your back. Packaged up as a nice interactive website.

justuseaqueue.com

Sorry, you’re telling me that something that doesn’t feel pain, doesn’t have lactic acid build up, doesn’t need adequate hydration or electrolytes, doesn’t need to pee, and doesn’t get tired is only 6 minutes faster than humans?

you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Roomba.

The Simplest Approach to Deploy Modern Software YouTube video by Datadog Community

@scottgerring.com and me chat a lot about code quality, code structure, and generally the 'craft' of software development.

Which you could argue might be being lost a little bit...

But once you've got that beautiful piece of software, how do you actually ship it somewhere?

youtu.be/73u4boYBcGM

Spending millions on platform engineering is not innovation.

It's not human-centric. And it's definitely not solving the problems your users actually have.

Design thinking has a principle: focus on verbs, not nouns.

Don't ask "how do we build better infrastructure?" Ask, "how might we enhance a d

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

One of the unexpected benefits of buying an electric vehicle is it has gamified 'good' driving. Predicting what's happening upfront, slow steady acceleration, regenerative breaking to slow down.

I saw my remaining mileage tick upwards today, not down.

Good design thinking starts with a story, not a solution.

"At the heart of any good story is a central narrative about the way an idea satisfies a need in some powerful way."

blog.jameseastham.co.uk/blog/2026-04...

Rory Mcllory is 90th out of 91st in terms of fairways hit in #TheMasters yet is 6 shots clear. I've just finished reading a book about the value of the short game... This is pretty convincing evidence. ⛳

Serverless Integration Patterns Learn practical knowledge for implementing integration patterns with AWS serverless services. This course goes far beyond what is in the Enterprise Integration Patterns book

In my latest online course, I cover the fundamental integration patterns you will see most often in #serverless applications.. And this isn't just point to point vs pub/sub. This course covers a range of different #patterns, and importantly, how you can actually use these patterns in #production.

It's open season for refusing AI There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright.

In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

Ever had a green CI/CD pipeline but your Lambda deploy is actually broken? Tests passed, but a configuration mistake means prod is dead.

In this video you'll learn how to use Lambda Aliases/Versions & AWS Code Deploy to safely rollout new features

youtu.be/gsLkVmkkOxc

#serverless #aws #dotnet

birdsrightsactivist has painted human babies and hidden them in the shrubbery.

The key to life is to approach every single person with expectation. Not cynicism, not anger, not division or biases. Approach every person with the expectation that they are good people who are full of love.

Rowan Williams (slightly paraphrased) in this morning's Easter service.

Today in "that can't be real, right? oh crap, it's real."

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity
The future is panels everywhere"-@dfeldman.org
Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

The issue with LLM writing is it breaks standard heuristics for deciding if something is worth spending time on

top-down view of a notebook on top of a laptop keyboard with a pen laid on top that has the CodeTV logo printed on it

slowing down to write out a todo list longhand remains undefeated as both the best way not to lose track of things and as a tiny meditation on where I'm spending my energy and attention

can't recommend it enough

I've always found Jaeger useful enough for local development.

Every time I see someone say 'a slide this length should have X slides I cry'. Arthur hitting the nail on the head here 👌

Whoever told you that is a prescriptivist idiot who probably has too much stuff on one slide. Slides are free. Slides offer a chance for a change in the audience's visual field, which brings their attention back. Slides should support each statement you're making, as you're making it.

James Eastham | Just a storytelling technologist thinking about systems, software and people. Just a storytelling technologist thinking about systems, software and people. Architect, international speaker, computer nerd.

The internet's greatest gift is also its greatest curse.

Finding your people online is genuinely wonderful. But I wonder what we've quietly traded away in the process....

blog.jameseastham.co.uk/blog/2026-03...

Ive been trying to rebuild my journalling habit this year, even if it's just a sentence or two every morning.

I'm not claiming it's a hack, or anything magical. But damn it certainly helps to clear your mind in a morning.

Still one of my favourite things to read every now and again.

'given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex'

grugbrain.dev

Back on the golf course today for the first time in a while, can't wait! ⛳️

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

🎉🦀

Rust Foundation Joins Datadog’s Open Source Program - The Rust Foundation The Rust Foundation is pleased to announce that we have joined the Datadog Open Source Program, which grants us access to a powerful observability platform that will help our team of engineers better…

The Rust Foundation has joined Datadog's Open Source Program!

We now have access to Datadog's unified observability platform to help keep the infrastructure powering the Rust ecosystem reliable and secure for developers worldwide. Thank you, Datadog 🦀

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It's definitely not going to be pretty is it 😬😭

Wait what... I either missed or didn't get this 😳