A cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal, turning your Git history into a living, animated story. github.com/unhappychoic...

Very interesting discussion, Thoughtworks Technology Radar shows GenAI dominating, this reflects what clients want at the coal face. But Fowler comes off as cautious, good for greenfield/legacy exploration, needs constant supervision. The market is bullish. The veterans see a bubble.

Some notes on architecture diagrams blog.veitheller.de/Some_notes_o...

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Ouch last night CloudFlare, GitHub, Uber, planes, trains and automobiles, just in time for black friday

Most IT solutions are corporate painkillers, quick fixes that hide symptoms (silos, inefficiency, slow delivery) while ignoring root causes (culture, people, process). And like painkillers, they’re addictive, expensive, and their side-effects are often long lasting and worse than the original pain.

two new demo apps highlighting UI5 Web Components playing nicely with SAPUI5 applications sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/1.142.1/#/de...

Teams desperately needs playback speed. 2x for status meetings, 3x for watching someone hunt-and-peck during pair programming

The fate of “small” open source nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/t...

Many failed SAP projects came down to tier-1 creating ambitious blueprints → tier-3 couldn't deliver Today the 'blueprint' isn't high-level guidance, it's a detailed 5R list with tech specs on exactly what to rebuild, retain, or retire .. I'm hearing tier-3 partners are pushing back. Too risky

"Good engineering management" is a fad lethain.com/good-eng-mgm... Good read - focus on timeless skills like execution, clarity, and ownership, not fads.

Just finished Episode 3 of #Pluribus Unlike Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul where you quickly warm to Walter and Saul, with Carol I find it easier to empathize with "the others", they're going out of their way to be nice and friendly and she refuses to read the room.

Nothing makes you appreciate home quite like a terrible hotel

Databricks vs. Snowflake: Complete Architecture Mapping for Enterprise AI and Big Data dzone.com/articles/big...

Will AI replace your job? youtube.com/shorts/1BUaR...

Walked into a Tricentis testing session by accident yesterday. “Quality Engineering” sounded cool. IT types were eating up the before and after metrics. Meanwhile devs take a backseat and real quality gets lost in planning and tooling. Post coming: “An ounce of prevention beats a pound of procure”

Mustafa sharing his experiences and observations during his year long world wide community eventathon #saptechedontour

The last couple of day there has been interesting discussions on the lack of a WAF (Web Application Firewall) in BTP. Tbl, if you follow the frameworks and best practices, a lot of the OWASP issues that a WAF addresses are catered for. Secure by Default. owasp.org/www-communit...

Stefanuz telling us about his experience of implementing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) #saptechedontour

Alisdair letting us know in the age of AI and Clean Core, the fundamentals like code quality matter now more than ever #saptechedontour

I really liked @hardingmatt.bsky.social practical actionable 10 point plan for moving towards a clean core solution #saptechedontour

Good insight, customers who adopted BTP prior to their S/4Hana migration are doing a better job managing their BTP investments than the ones who inherit after the SI leaves, BTP COE approach is one way to prepare yourself prior to go live #saptechedontour

"Sell the alpha, not the feature" some very interesting counter intuitive advice on Enterprise Sales in an AI era. Eg Don’t play the small business game with an enterprise company. Land small or discount and you’ll stay small. The landing anchors your ability to expand youtu.be/37fKFWdrMyA?...

From what I saw of TechEd posts this year, I expected vendors to be showcasing "game changing" “clean core,” data migration, change management, or monitoring/ops AI offerings, but most of the buzz was around developer productivity and workflow automation.

Russell Crowe has great stories, talks across a wide range of topics, and the way he can subtlety discuss current problems in society and American politics in particular without taking sides is an art youtu.be/P4G2KGEkSyI?...

Please don't use em dashes Sure — ... You said you wouldn't use but lasted 4 characters Oh — ...

Whenever a customer I believe desperately needs a cultural reset tells me they're going the selective data/Bluefield route I feel like asking - you've been down similar roads before are you solving the right problems or just buying time again?

Some food for thought on structuring large CAP apps, should mono-repos be grouped by technical objects, apps, models, services, handlers - or by bounded contexts that reflect business functionality? Modular Monoliths Explained: Structure, Strategy, and Scalability dzone.com/articles/mod...

Been using Bruno, time to give this a try github.com/mountain-loo...

Most of What We Call Progress ↓ 💯 yusufaytas.com/most-of-what...

Medium CEO explains how AI is changing writing idratherbewriting.com/blog/stubble...

Heads up - We use Amazon's leadership principles They're going to grill you on times you: - Fixed something that wasn't your job - Pushed back on a bad decision - Shipped with limited resources - Made a call with incomplete data Prep specific stories using STAR www.designgurus.io/blog/amazon-...

made me lol

The pic shows the typical steps a developer takes going from Junior to Senior. Frameworks let you skip ahead, skipping many steps, my take is a senior knows which boxes to open when things break and whether it's worth the cost of looking inside and trying to reason with it

Mind the Gap With SAP e3mag.com/en/mind-the-... I’m a big fan of Hana, it had the potential to be more than it became.

“He had four certifications. Plenty of experience. Seemed perfect.” Customer called yesterday. I asked how their new “superstar” dev was doing? “Couldn’t deliver. We let him go.” Interviews test history, not ability. Ask how people solve problems, not which ones they’ve seen.

Interesting takeaway – if you can’t explain your pitch, submission, talk, or design proposal in 3 sentences, it’s probably not ready. Reviewers back what they can understand.

State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025 devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com

Remember when we used to hide those hacky $bash scripts out of shame? Now they’re AI-captioned MCP performance art.

Looking at this timeline, ECC's mature years (2008-2015) were IMO the most innovative - TechEd's energy reflected it. Stable platform, thriving ecosystem, HANA and cloud excitement. Subscription model push (2016 ->) moved from what customers could build to what SAP delivers as-a-service.

How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose) www.rubick.com/how-to-build... Interesting read, contrary to popular opinion, silos can help scale, while cross-team collaboration might actually slow you down.

ServiceNow CEO says AI companies aren't threatening enterprise software share.google/fJQyjdLDpveO... Interesting take, pretty much a shot at SAP, "AI is a cross functional sport" can't let it loose in silos

‬ Aicohol is a great servant, but a terrible master

OH: "Step Functions is like adopting a few kittens to help with chores, then realizing you’ve built a feline empire that needs constant feeding, grooming, and debugging. Suddenly, you’re a cat herder, not a product builder."

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell The trouble with Broadcom’s VMware strategy? It’s making Tanzu Cloud Foundry look like legacy tech. Enterprises are being squeezed, and the backwash is real. www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/t...

The price of mandatory code reviews newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-price-...

Twice today I was asked my rate before being told what they needed.

playing with SAP CAP Console ( formelly CAPuccino) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhn... available here tools.hana.ondemand.com#cloud nice to see internally they use ServiceNow I am not sure i have the problems this tool solves, was hoping for more development focused like CAP developer dashboard

POST: Think Distributed Systems - Review Frameworks and platforms aren’t the real tools. Mental models are. Read cover-to-cover for true understanding. www.secondphase.com.au/think-distri...