October 13, 2023

Episode 436: Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements

1 hour 4 minutes

This week, we discuss measuring developer productivity, Unity licensing backlash, and some follow-up on Wireless Emergency Alerts. Plus, thoughts on coconuts.

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Runner-up Titles

One day an ice machine will run on RISC-V

Mo Developers Mo Problems

W3C my ass.

That’s almost an aggressive blue.

Wait. Do I live in an office complex?

You pay the same

Quarantine Quarters

Maybe I have too much mindlessness

Out of my way Costco, I’m going direct.

Candy Corn

Have you tried a bubble-sort?

Omerta for developers

Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements.

KCNA23VMWEO20

Just make the bed

Rundown

Developer Productivity

McKinsey Developer Productivity Review

Even longer rebuttal.

The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand

Reports

Kubernetes at Scale: Challenges, Priorities, Adoption Patterns, and Solutions

Announcing the 2023 State of DevOps Report

John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately

Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)

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Be an Open Source Absolutist!

Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps

Nonsense

Ice Is Not Necessary. So Why Do Hotels Provide It for Free?

Listener Feedback

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Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA, SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. Use this VMware discount code for 20% off: KCNA23VMWEO20.

Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona, Coté’s attending

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