Engineering Director @Tesco Father, cycling/swimming/tri enthusiast, Watford fan. He/him
St Albans, UK
Joined February 2007
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BREAKING: Edoardo Bove has arrived at London Colney to complete his medical with #WatfordFC. 👇
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Living with EB, by my warrior daughter Grace Fincham - @CharityDEBRA debra.org.uk/living-with-eb-…
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A couple days back I went on a whole rant about lazy billionaires punching down and blaming wfh/"work life balance" for Google's long slide of loss dominance.
I actually want to take this up from the other side, and defend some of the much hated, much-maligned RTO initiatives.
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The 4x 2nd place finisher at the IRONMAN World Championship just added a 1st place win to her long list of accomplishments💯
Lucy Charles-Barclay🇬🇧 is your 2023 VinFast IRONMAN World Champion🔥
⏱ presented by @wahoofitness | #IMWC2023 #IRONMANtri #AnythingIsPossible
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If you missed @BBCBreakfast this morning, in 1 month, Graeme Souness, Andy Grist and a team of 4 others, will be swimming the channel for DEBRA!
Please donate and help us #StopThePain for people living with EB, like Isla: bit.ly/43hZ6mx
#BBCBreakfast #GraemeSouness
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'It's the cruellest, nastiest, disease.. this is a very special young lady and she gets me in tears every time'
Former footballer Graeme Souness told #BBCBreakfast why he's swimming the Channel to raise funds for the charity DEBRA - details on their website
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Typical of my incredible daughter @fincham_grace_ on her birthday. instagram.com/p/Cpv5mkdo3fW/… @CharityDEBRA – at Portsmouth, England
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I want to talk about dogs in bags,
and what it teaches us about using metrics in our engineering organisations.
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👀@samnewman explains why creating a platform should NOT be the purpose of a "Platform Team" (and thus we shouldn't use that term)
samnewman.io/blog/2023/02/08…
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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Watford is a club where every bond is unravelling under the ownership of Gino Pozzo.
By @Simon_Burnton theguardian.com/football/202…
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That’s a wrap for the 2022 evo Trackdays season in the UK, but there are still spaces left for our exclusive Spa-Francorchamps track day experience in association with RSR Spa next month... 🏁 #evoTrackdays 📷 @evosamj evotrackdays.co.uk/evotrackd…
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Last week I shared blog.0x74696d.com/posts/plat… from @0x74696d with a few Platform Engineers.
It's an excellent read for any team planning to build an internal platform for the company.
It has two takeaways:
1. Doing an MVP is not enough. Plan for Product Market Fit.
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Developer productivity is something that's on every engineering manager's mind.
Get it right, and you can uncover bottlenecks & help your team succeed.
Get it wrong? You quickly lose your team's trust.
So here are 6 must-read articles about team performance & productivity:
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It feels bizarre saying this, having spent so much of my life advocating for and selling a distribution of Kubernetes and consulting services for it, but here goes! YOU probably shouldn't use Kubernetes and a bunch of other "cool" things for your product. 🧵👇
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Multiple fires. Evacuation of parts of Quinta now being conducted by the Police - GNR. Suggest folks stay well away from the area. Fires are moving West atm
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Every so often there will be a burst of Twitter conversations on the “Reverse Conway Manoeuver” and related topics.
I find this encouraging, but not for a reason you might suspect.
Hear me out; this is important.
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