When scaling up, getting costs under control is vital to stabilizing financial health. But as a weight-loss expert might say, the key to long-term health is to do things that promote a sustainable lifestyle. Sofia Tania
Any business that wants to grow needs to be built on strong and stable foundations. While these strategic directions are often familiar to technical folks it's important that the improvements to engineering align with the theme
We are saddened today to learn of the passing of Stefan Tilkov. We’ve met Stefan several times at workshops and conferences and always enjoyed his good company and insightful views. He advocated many of the things that we and our colleagues support - and as well as skillfully explaining these ideas, he also backed them up with concrete experience from his work. We shall really miss his wise contributions online, and re
Sarah Taraporewalla moves on to the remaining two strategic directions that are part of growing the business. Exp
In her 5th memo about exploring GenAI for software development, Birgitta Böckeler answers the frequently asked question if coding assistants are making the practice of Pair Programming obsolete. Spoiler alert: They don't.
My colleague Sarah Taraporewalla describes an approach to building technology strategy that challenges the convention. It starts by identifying the overall strategic directions that the organization is considering, and using comm
While coding assistants like Copilot can improve speed and flow, they can also disrupt it. Birgitta Böckeler looks at two ways in which they can get in the way: amplifying bad or outdated practices, and review fatigue.
The most widely used form of coding assistance in Thoughtworks at the moment is in-line code generation in the IDE, where an IDE extension generates suggestions for the developer as they are typing. Birgitta Böckeler looks at the factors that impact the usefulness of these suggestions, indicating where they lead to safe wat
Sofia and Stefania begin their examination of how to get out of the bottleneck of surging cloud costs by relating a case study from a recent client - illustrating how the cost control can be separated into reduce and sustain phases.