There’s often debate around the build-versus-buy decision for digital capabilities. But when it comes to integrating disparate systems, the convenience of some modern integration tools can result in point-in-time integrations: ones that are never intended to evolve, with all the complexity and cost that entails. Here, we catch up with Brandon Byers to explore the limits of low-code tools and the perils of thinking you can buy integration.

You can't buy integration

Teamed up with my best friends in the world And The Moneynotes and did a few songs from  "Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas" for Christmas 09

Aint No Hole In The Washtub (Emmett Otter Cover)

Teamed up with my best friends ever And The Moneynotes to cover some songs from my favorite Christmas movie Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas

Barbeque (Emmett Otter Cover)

Teamed up with my fav music buds And The Moneynotes to cover some songs from my fav Christ movie Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas. Kevin Hambrick plays toughguy organ on this too!

Riverbottom Nightmare Band (Emmett Otter Cover)

Dan McClure is the Innovation Design Practice Lead at ThoughtWorks. In this interview, by Johannes Thöenes, Dan discusses definitions of and misconceptions about innovation.

Innovation With Dan McClure

In this episode, we talk about the role of a tech lead and how Pat Kua is helping new tech leads on their journey. We talk about the responsibilities of a tech lead and how this can be very overwhelming in the beginning. We also discuss the importance of a technical vision, what distinguishes a technical vision from an architecture and how we can teach tech visioning.

Every tech lead has his own style, so Pat tells me. So if you are new to the job, you will need to develop your own style. 

So, what should a participant in a tech lead program take out of it, I ask. Pat responds: “I would like to take the participants to say that they are comfortable [...] with the many responsibilities a tech lead has to deal with. I’m not expecting them to be experts in every skill.”

We close by talking about Pat’s Book “Talking with Tech Leads”, with interesting interviews from tech leads all over the industry.

Training Tech Leads

Functional programming has a lot of concepts which have to be yet discovered by mainstream programming. One, known especially from the Haskell programming language, are Lenses. 

Johannes Thönes met Chris Ford, Software Developer and ThoughtWorker from London, during XConf in Hamburg where he gave a talk on implementing Lenses in Clojure. In this 23 minute interview, Johannes talks with Chris about his experience with Lenses in Clojure. First they define what a Lense is and what you would want to do with it. Then they talk about the specifics of implementing Lenses in a programming language introducing the terms Functor and Function. We close the episode by talking about the possibility to implement lenses in other programming languages such as Java 8 or JavaScript.


Lenses in Clojure

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