I took one of my usual weekend power walks and I was listening to motivational speeches. Like I usually do during the first half of these 10km walks. What I heard strongly resonated with me. “You...
The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
The Phoenix Project was a novel on the DevOps transformation of an imaginary company from the perspective of the new VP of IT Operations. The The Unicorn Project is a novel about the same transform...
Do we correctly calculate min and max?
This article is inspired by Walter E Brown’s talk at the Italian C++ Conference 2021: Extrema: Correctly calculating min and max. Walter brought up several issues with these algorithms starting f...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: Minimum/maximum operations
In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we are going to talk about minimum and maximum operations: max max_element min min_element minmax minmax_element clamp max / ...
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
The Phoenix Project is a fantastic book that is both a professional book aiming to guide teams and “a novel about IT, DevOps, and how to help your business win”. It’s written in a style I love th...
OODA loop: The blueprint of our decision making
If you’re following my articles, you probably have a vague idea of what the OODA loop is. First, I used the term in the review of Jeff Sutherland’s book on Scrum. Sutherland was a fighter pilot a...
const rvalue references
Recently I facilitated a workshop at C++OnSea. It went well, but there was one topic that I couldn’t deliver as well as I wanted. You might have guessed it right, it was about const rvalue referenc...
Stand up for yourself and for your values
This is an excerpt from by book called The Seniority Trap. I’m sharing some parts from each chapter. Check out the #thesenioritytrap for more parts. — If you want to grow, if you really want to b...
Patterns of Conflict: Understand blitzkrieg with 4 German words
I shared recently a book review with you. It was about the biography of Colonel John Boyd. In case you haven’t heard about him, he was a fighter pilot, an engineer who changed how aircrafts are des...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: heap operations
In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we are going to talk about heap operations: is_heap is_heap_until make_heap push_heap pop_heap sort_heap The first question we ...