Shamil's Blog. Software Engineering Processes, Android, CI, Devops.

• https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/
• https://medium.com/@sherifmansour/product-engineers-f424da766871

The idea of product-minded engineer brings a brick in the wall of knowledge on how to distinguish between the different kinds of engineers. I can consider myself this kind of engineer, and I worked with some of this kind. So I know the difference. Obvious the hiring decision for a small company cannot be based on asking candidates to solve a dynamic programming problems on a e-whiteboard. Something more accurate must be used for a small teams. The important thing is to see how engineer can be involved into product creation not only as coder, but as product-minded engineer.

Labels: engineer, hiring, product, work process

For a plantuml nice and simple diagrams text generation tool integration with the gitlab server setup, the plantuml server needs to be exposed to external network. Which is not good. Although some of security risks can be mitigated with running plantuml in docker but definitely not all (such as data exposure, DoS attacks) and mitigating them requires lots of careful manual tuning. Gitlab needs plantuml integration to host rendered images on its side. Maybe aa a plugin. I definitely want to investigate this.

Labels: devops, diagram, docker, git, gitlab, plantuml, security, uml, work process

Great talk on "why work does not happen at work" about offices, meetings and sleep time.

Labels: meetings, work process