Peculiar Books Reviewed: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.'s "Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed"
In the first Peculiar Books Reviewed we discussed David A. Mindell's delightful book "Digital Apollo" and, in particular, took from the book this lesson: »
Peculiar Books Reviewed: Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys"
What is the soul of software engineering as a discipline? That is, who is it that the software engineer can esteem? What characteristics are laudable and »
Peculiar Books Reviewed: Alain de Botton's "Status Anxiety"
I went to a conference earlier this month where everyone was uniformly lovely and brilliant and interesting and everyone agreed that it was an excellent conference »
Instrumentation Talks, To Date
I've spoken twice recently this year on the instrumentation of complex systems, at SF Bay Area Erlang Factory in February and at Portland, OR Write the »
An Incomprehensive Bibliography
This is an incomprehensive bibliography for the books and articles that have influenced my thinking around Instrumentation by Default for complex systems. As this is an »