Sublime

Now we are transitioning into the third age of computation. Pages and browsers are far less important. Today the prime units are flows and streams. We constantly monitor Twitter streams and the flows of posts on our Facebook wall. We stream photos, movies, and music. News banners stream across the bottom of TVs. We subscribe to YouTube streams, cal

Agile practices encourage teams to deliver deployment-ready code every iteration and even deploy code if the team uses continuous deployment. One easy metric that provides an indication of how far away from that goal a team might be—essentially an indicator of how much friction is in the development process—is “the tail,” referring to the time betw

the company may be trumpeting its recent success at early test sites when what the pragmatist really wants to hear about are up-and-running production installations. Or the company may be saying “state-of-the-art” when the pragmatist wants to hear “industry standard.”