Five for Friday – September 27, 2019

Happy Friday everyone – here’s some stuff to dump from my head to yours.

  • As I type this, I’m listening to Dead Man’s Pop – the remixed version of the Replacement’s Don’t Tell a Soul. I was/am a big Replacement’s fan, and these recordings are all kinds of excellent.
  • This article on how Boeing’s Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster is fascinating, with far too many parallels to software disasters than this frequent traveler is comfortable with.
  • I liked this infographic on Agile Team Dynamics.
  • Not sure why HTTP/2 can be problematic, or how TCP and UDP fit intot he equation. And what’s this about HTTP/3 – here’s a fantastic summary of HTTP 1, 2, and 3 in a Nutshell
  • Another profoundly true quote from Drift Into Failure
    Murphy’s law is wrong: everything that can go wrong usually goes right, and then we draw the wrong conclusion.

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