David Ashman

@davidbashman

Computer geek, musician, husband, father of two. Architecture . self.opinions()

Washington, DC
Joined October 2009

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  1. Retweeted
    Aug 12

    A mandate to deliver a business outcome is very different from a mandate to deliver a certain amount of scope. Scope delivery is easy, relatively speaking. Outcome realization requires real collaboration...

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    Aug 12

    . is committed to diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. And that's something we can get behind! Explore more:

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  3. Aug 2

    Still so very very true.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jul 31

    This Weezer album sucks!

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  5. Retweeted
    Jul 18

    You really don't need Kubernetes to do safe deploys.

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    It’s only scrum if the backlog comes from the Agilé region of France; otherwise it’s just sparkling waterfall.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    Eng Team: (building a bridge) Product: Is it safe to drive a car across the bridge? It’ll hold up, right? Eng: Absolutely not! Product: Ok, well, we’re doing it anyway, so ...

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  8. Jun 12

    Led Zepplin spent a lot of time workshopping the song before landing on the final title.

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    Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press. Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) 💥🔥☄️

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  10. Retweeted
    Mar 15

    "I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man Month so that he could read it twice as fast." -

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    Feb 26

    In this talk, ‘s will share with you an approach to discovering organizational through its artifacts. Build an understanding of an organization's culture . Find out more:

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  12. Jan 8

    Never again . Your customer service has not been able to resolve my cancellation and refund issues after five attempts.

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  13. 19 Dec 2018

    A truly outstanding talk on creativity in education. I have always believed that my art and music education directly influenced my success in academics.

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    "Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function." — John Carmack

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  15. Retweeted
    18 Dec 2018

    0 vs null vs undefined

    0 - empty toilet roll. null - no toilet roll
undefined - no toilet roll mounting
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  16. Retweeted
    17 Dec 2018

    Are the differences between “robustness” and “resilience” a bit tough to grok? Yep. Does it take effort to explore those differences to appreciate them? Yep! Is the industry able to do that? Absolutely! If we can grok distributed systems theory, we can roll up sleeves for this.

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    17 Dec 2018

    Efforts to bring ‘fault-tolerance’ efforts to software is specifically not “Resilience Engineering” My goal in stating this is not finger-wagging, it’s important clarification that took me a while to understand myself.

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    17 Dec 2018

    Resilience Engineering is reserved for the productive preparation for and handling of *unanticipated* disturbances, not those that have been designed for. Please understand that “designing for failure” activities are more accurately described by “robustness” - NOT “resilience”

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    12 Dec 2018

    Retrospectives on incidents are usually focused on actions taken to resolve. Expanding to include interactions can provide a deeper understanding and improve collaboration. Check out 's talk from

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