You can fake a lot of things in business. Authority. Expertise. Competence. But you can’t fake certain traits, like respect. Think about the managers you’ve had in the past. The good ones. The bad ones. People do respect good managers. Why? You remember how it felt to work with them. I bet it felt safe, challenged, trusted and a few […]
When I look back at the projects I’ve worked on, the most peaceful moments were always when the code felt consistent. Everything lined up. Names made sense. Files looked familiar. It felt like I could read the system instead of fighting it. That sense of order never happens by accident. It comes from small, deliberate choices made over time. How […]
In early days of computing, there was no need for distributed transactions, everything lived in one place. As number of applications increased, synchronization of the data become an important issue, and consistency stopped being “free.” Companies paid a lot to maintain synchronized systems in terms of data flow, because broken data flow is just silent data corruption. As a result, […]