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Mar 31, 2021

The IT Pendulum

Are IT trends a pendulum, swinging back and forth forever? — For a long time, I’ve had a theory, but it’s only recently that I’ve started to explore it further. It goes something like this: How we approach IT delivery swings back and forth, from one extreme to the opposite, over time, much like a pendulum I’ve an inkling that it…

Technology

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The IT Pendulum
The IT Pendulum

Dec 11, 2019

AWS re:Invent 2019 — BJSS’s viewpoint

AWS re:Invent 2019 has come and gone this week past. As vast an experience as ever, with sessions, workshops, keynotes, fairs, expos and other events over an action packed 5 days, stretching the length of Las Vegas Boulevard. In total there were over 70 new products and features launched during…

Cloud Computing

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Mar 28, 2019

Disposable applications and the future-proofing myth

The mindset that many organisations take when delivering change is flawed. Software shouldn’t be built to last years and years. It shouldn’t be made ready for future reuse in ways we’ve attempted to foresee. Future-proofing is a myth. Real, immediate business value is regularly delayed so money can be theoretically…

Software Development

4 min read

Carl Austin

Carl Austin

Technology lover and shoe collector. I’ll probably only write about the former of those things.

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