Episode Details

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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