The effects of the Cloudflare outage on Oh Dear
Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned.
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Posts tagged with lessons learned
Lessons from Open Source Software
– gummibeer.dev - submitted by Tom Witkowski
This post is a response/reaction to "From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software" by Patrick Organ.
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From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Lessons learned from contributing to open source software projects.
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Lessons from the last 12 months
An important post by Mohamed Said.
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10 lessons in productivity and brainstorming from The Beatles
As a big Beatles fan, I enjoyed this blog post very much. I often think there are a lot of similarities between programming and making music.
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Mistakes I've made in AWS
Here's a collection of the most commonly missed things when using AWS with Laravel Forge!
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I wrote 1 blog post every day for 2 years. Here's 5 things I learned about SEO
Interesting read for the bloggers amongst us.
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The €963 Book Launch That Made Me Wish To Get Back To My Secured Job
Christoph Rumpel wrote an honest lookback at the launch of his book. I takes courage to publish a post like these. Well done!
Exactly 365 days ago, I released my first ebook. I always wanted to share my experiences about it, but I never felt comfortable enough to do so. The project didn't turn out as expected, and I felt embarrassed. It's time to finally reflect it and to overcome my fears.
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Project from Hell
Project failures is a WordPress blog with horror stories of project that have terribly gone wrong. I recently stumbled across this particularly juicy story.
A few years ago, I was hired to work as a consultant on a software project for a large French tech company. What I have witnessed there is beyond everything I could possibly have imagined in terms of software engineering. Far more serious than just a lack of professional competence was the utmost contempt for human dignity which at some point made me compare the whole experience to (what I imagine can be) jail. What I relate here is a selected list of topics that should illustrate my point, but check out by yourself.
https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-from-hell/
Laravel Excel — Lessons Learned
Last week Laravel Excel v3 was released. In a post on his company blog Patrick Brouwers writes the story of why and how v3 was released.
Laravel Excel (https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel) turned 4 years last November and has reached almost 6 million Packagist downloads. A good time to reflect on 4,5 years of open source development.
https://medium.com/@maatwebsite/laravel-excel-lessons-learned-7fee2812551
I crashed the web servers of a $100M+ multi-national corporation
A great story by Derick Bailey of Watchmecode.net
The important lesson, ..., was that I owned up to the mistake, dug in and fixed it, and learned how to avoid the problem in the future. I was, in his mind, a better developer at the end of that day. I had survived a catastrophic crash of my own making and I had fixed the problem, learning some very valuable lessons in business down time and in code that day.http://derickbailey.com/email_archive/i-crashed-the-web-servers-of-a-100m-multi-national-corporation/