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BLASTS FROM THE PAST – THE POWER OF MICROSERVICES

May 2, 2017May 3, 2017 Stephen Michael 0 Comment Software, Technology Amiga,
Amiga 1000, AST, Cassandra, Dynamo DB, Elasticache, golang, Kafka,
microservices, MongoDB, NetNoon, NGINX, node, node.js, NoSQL, Puppet, RabbitMQ,
Redis, Riak, VAX, VMS, WayFest

Darkness ran away from a brightening blue sky, as the rays of the early-morning
sun extinguished the last stellar guardians of the long night.  The crisp
coolness of an early Spring breeze felt invigorating as it ruffled the man’s
hair – only getting past his leather and wool to chill his ears and face.

A slight tension was in the air as behind him a large construct of fabric and
wood, smelling of oil and petrol, awaited this day of promise.

He surveyed the spars and ribs of the wings, laid-out and crafted by his own
hands, and noted something out of place – a small piece of gravel had blown onto
the tail section.  He ran over and carefully brushed aside the coarse bits of
sand, and afterwards used a soft cloth to lovingly polish the stretched cloth
over the stabilizer.

A wooden propeller, carved by his own hands and attached to a small gas engine,
silently awaited the command to push the craft forward.  Ahead of the craft a
stamped down dirt field runway waited patiently for the takeoff run.

Yes, the conditions were perfect.  His craft was good, and his assistant stood
ready.  Everything was prepared! Read more


HOW TO MAXIMIZE EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY

December 15, 2016December 16, 2016 Stephen Michael 0 Comment Leadership,
Software, Technology

 



Have you ever stopped to consider why some employees, to be productive, require
more focused time than others?  Most of this is hopefully quite intuitive to you
but, based upon recent experiences, I believe it worthwhile to review how we can
create ways that foster productivity – especially for employees whose tasks have
a high-degree of complexity.

So when thinking about an employee’s need for focus, consider the
characteristics of the tasks that the employee typically must do, and then ask a
few basic questions like: How long does it take…

 1. To prepare to start performing the task?
 2. To productively stop performing the task when it is interrupted? I.e. How
    long does it take to “save my place”, take-notes on where I left-off, …,
    etc.
 3. To restart the task after being…
    * “Productively” interrupted? I.e. Did I have a chance to reach a good
      stopping point?
    * “Unproductively” interrupted? I.e. Was I compelled to “drop everything”
      and take a different task? If so, then the absence of a “good stopping
      point” will add to the time required to restart the task.

Some tasks like cleaning up my desk or reviewing my “to do” list are relatively
simple, and can be safely interrupted without damaging productivity. But the
productivity of someone doing complex research, writing, design, or development
work can be destroyed by excessive interruptions.

In these days when management is under yet more intense pressure to do more with
less, it is even more important to know how to get the most out of our teams.

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GREAT LEADERS = TRUSTED DEALERS IN HOPE

February 22, 2016February 28, 2016 Stephen Michael 0 Comment Career-Planning,
Leadership, Self-Awareness

As I drove beside the yawning precipice on the right, my car clung to the narrow
gravel roadway – precariously close to the edge.  No guard rail.  No shoulder.
 Nothing at all, it seemed, between my SUV and the nothingness below.  I
shuddered as I stole glimpses through wispy clouds of tiny cars and toy
buildings in the distant valley.

“Tell her to stay on her side…”, I hear as my white-knuckled hands gripped the
steering wheel.  With constant jabber streaming from my little girls in the back
seat, and a bottomless chasm on my right, I struggled to keep focused on the
turning-narrow ribbon of road ahead.

Oh no!  I came out of a switchback in the road and suddenly faced an oncoming
truck!  I thought, “there is no room for both of us!”  To avoid being squashed
by the massive knobbies of the huge off-roader, I slowed to a crawl and
grudgingly gave away a few more inches of my life.  And as the green behemoth
passed by excruciatingly slow – almost scraping the side of my overmatched
vehicle – I couldn’t tell where my right wheels were – but they were surely
about to slip off the edge!

Slowly, slowly, slowly… finally.  Finally the monstrous 4X4 was past!

My heart was pounding out of my chest as I pulled forward and stopped on the
left side of the road.  Now safely in the shadow of the granite wall rising
above me , I caught my breath and thought: “those ‘Maroon Bells’ sure were
pretty, but I don’t know if I can handle this drive again!”

The above episode – from years ago – was on my return from a camping and
sight-seeing trip at the majestic “Maroon Bells” in my adopted state of
Colorado, where I live and work.  Sometimes I must drive through mountain passes
on the way to camping, hiking, cycling, and other serene outdoor activities –
which I enjoy immensely.

But some mountain-top experiences are not my thing!

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YODA AND C.S. LEWIS ON LIVING IN “THE NOW”

January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 Stephen Michael 1 Comment Self-Awareness
Yoda

In “The Empire Strikes Back” Yoda said of Luke Skywalker: “This one, a long time
have I watched.  All his life has he looked away to the future, the horizon.
 Never his mind on where he was… What he was doing.”

This statement could have been said of me. Since I was a young boy, I have
always looked to the future, to the point that I have frequently neglected to
live in the here and now. But the future is only given to us a piece at a time;
it appears to us in the present – the now.

In “The Screwtape Letters”, C.S. Lewis wrote: “the Present is the point at which
time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have…
freedom… offered them“.

We can anticipate the future but, our freedom to operate and to act comes only
in the now.

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