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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4h

Made me lol

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4h

Test First: Challenges design assumptions before coding.
Test After: Validates wrong code works.

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6h

I didn't like the ads though, they felt wooden

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6h

Google's Engineering Culture
youtu.be/sj9Q2VcfUeA?...

I really enjoyed this format of podcast it felt a lot like a tech teardown version of AcquiredFM, @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com and Elin have a similar rapour to Ben and David, deep deep insight and inside baseball knowledge - recommended

Google’s engineering culture

YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6h

We do learn through cycles of mistakes. But I think we're mostly just doing blind imitation / cargo culting, not intentional deconstruction. So many trends lately, AI everywhere, microservices that nobody needed, the serverless hype cycle, get left for the next thing

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6h

The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.
-- Russell L. Ackoff --

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 16h

Kafka Event-Driven Microservices: Monitoring and Observability
dev.to/uptrace/kafk... This blog post is interesting because it highlights what to monitor when moving from REST to event driven.

Kafka Event-Driven Microservices: Monitoring and Observability

Event-driven microservices communicate through messages rather than direct HTTP calls. Instead of...

dev.to

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 17h

Why we're leaving serverless
www.unkey.com/blog/serverl...

www.unkey.com

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 2d

its legacy debt they shouldn't be building on let alone AI washing

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 2d

Many Rise projects rush to deploy on BTP with a ‘fast now, fix later’ mindset. The fallout? Developers face rising KTLO and burnout, reluctant to own or fix the mess, they quickly move on to other projects. Meanwhile, business users complain of degraded services and slower time to value than before

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 2d

POST: Platform Engineering – Review secondphase.com.au/platform-eng... Good read for anyone moving masses of business value to BTP and not planning for the pushback. Platform ≠ tooling. Platform = product. Stakeholders will push back. Be ready.

Platform Engineering - Review

The book examines why platform adoption often fails to deliver intended business value. Teams struggle with complexity, internal friction, and competing priorities, and big initiatives often burn out ...

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 2d

Yep, I used to get a lot more retainer work

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 3d

Getting a few requests from boutique consultancies trying to turn an idea into a product on S/4HANA Public Cloud. They’re stuck technically & think once unblocked its smooth sailing. It’s not, they’re missing what building a product really involves. I explain that for free, after that my time’s paid

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 3d

Yeah, a lot to take in with the tables and maps, it does seem like a pragmatic approach if the company is willing to do the hard work

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 3d

Foie gras is enterprising the hell out of a goose

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4d

ServiceNow is an ITSM tool for capturing, triaging & routing user feedback / requests, often into Jira-like apps. It’s also used as a platform to patch gaps in enterprise COTS via custom workflows/forms - sometimes positioned as a “single pane of glass” while being a solution in search of problems

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4d

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
-- John Maynard Keynes --

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 4d

Trust is like the air we breathe, when it's present, nobody really notices, when it's absent, everybody notices.
-- Warren Buffett --

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 5d

Interesting read. Organisational change framed around three archetypes: Explorer, Villager, Town Planner. Matching mindset to stage of evolution is key. Sceptical of one-size-fits all vendors, consultants and Gartner solutions.

The dangerous path to EVTP
blog.gardeviance.org/2023/12/how-...

How to organise yourself - the dangerous path to Explorer, Villager and Town Planners

The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business

blog.gardeviance.org

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 5d

Good read. Highlights how platforms attract contributions then shift toward control and monetization once a moat is built. OpenAI seems to be following this pattern. They will need more than Sora and ChatGPT Apps SDK. So far commodity slop, no moat.
blog.brianbalfour.com/p/the-next-g...

The Next Great Distribution Shift

Thank you to Casey Winters, Aaron White, Dan Hockenmaier, Fareed Mosavat and Adam Fishman for reading early versions of this and providing feedback.

blog.brianbalfour.com

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6d

True simplicity requires mastery

Competence leads to confidence

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6d

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...
The illegible nature of software development talent

“confident and wrong” often beats “quiet and right” like awarding the loudest karaoke singer while ignoring the one who actually hits every note backstage. Visibility isn’t the same as value.

The illegible nature of software development talent

Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …

surfingcomplexity.blog

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6d

no income tax no VAT, no money back or guarantee

John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 6d

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
idiallo.com/blog/how-to-...

good reminder that leadership is not about having all the answers. It is about knowing what questions to ask and how to communicate across different perspectives.

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John Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 7d

Exactly what I thought, achieve what consultancies never could, hypothesis based outcomes