Mesut Ayata's Blog

Mesut Ayata's Blog

What AI tells about my blog

What AI tells about my blog

I gave Google's NotebookLM a try, added just my blog's link to it and hit the button to create a podcast. The result is impressive!

The THREE PILLARS of EFFECTIVE TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

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The THREE PILLARS of EFFECTIVE TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

I am thrilled to announce my book, The Three Pillars of Effective Technical Leadership 🙂 📣 🎉 ✍ 🎊 You can now order paperback, hardcover or kindle editions on amazon!

"We use cool technologies", so what?

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"We use cool technologies", so what?

Who cares if we build something with super cool technologies but it brings no value or no one is happy using it?

100 times more deployments: How did we achieve Continuous Deployment?

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100 times more deployments: How did we achieve Continuous Deployment?

Yes, we develop on the main branch, each commit is treated as a release candidate and each push is expected to reach production. Results: 100 times more deployments, shorter lead and recovery time, less failure rates. But how?

How to kill a talent?

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How to kill a talent?

Attention: This post contains a lot of humor :)

Creating High Performance Teams

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Creating High Performance Teams

You are starting a new journey on a new project. No matter if you join an existing team or form a new team, as a tech lead you would try hard to ensure a high performance team. But how?

Why are tech huddles more than "nice to have"?

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Why are tech huddles more than "nice to have"?

Tech Huddles play a critical role in creating high performance teams. It is not for the benefit of developers only, but also of product and end user.

Just one line of code

Just one line of code

Why to test 'just one line of code'?