I am a cloud application architect with 10 years' experience in software development in several languages, including Perl, Java and C#. I'm an Irishman living in Calgary, Canada. GitHub on @cubikca.
Location
Calgary, Canada
Education
BSc. Computing and Info Systems, Athabasca University
Yes, I spend a good deal of my personal time doing research on tools and techniques. In addition to learning from mentors, talking to colleagues and keeping up with trends.
I try not to be a perfectionist, for practical reasons. But after that experience, I don't want to do things like that any more. Experience is a great motivator to do better :)
When I started working on this software, it was already a pretty complex beast. The company has grown since then, and the number of users has gone up considerably. The complexity creating by moving to a distributed system alone was a significant hurdle to get over and as you say, the business requirements are constantly evolving. But, as a result of this experience, we introduced a proper DevOps and improved our QA processes.
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Yes, I spend a good deal of my personal time doing research on tools and techniques. In addition to learning from mentors, talking to colleagues and keeping up with trends.
I try not to be a perfectionist, for practical reasons. But after that experience, I don't want to do things like that any more. Experience is a great motivator to do better :)
When I started working on this software, it was already a pretty complex beast. The company has grown since then, and the number of users has gone up considerably. The complexity creating by moving to a distributed system alone was a significant hurdle to get over and as you say, the business requirements are constantly evolving. But, as a result of this experience, we introduced a proper DevOps and improved our QA processes.