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| | Collective code ownership is an essential practice but often misapplied in enterprises and multi-team software organizations, leading to churn, expensive integration bugs, and morale issues. Conway's Law can help to organize teams to get the benefits of collective code ownership.
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| | [AI summary] An expert IT consultant analyzes how organizational silos and bureaucracy cause major software architecture failures, illustrating Fred Brooks' Conway's Law through case studies of thousands of dollars in wasted projects and discussing Agile methodologies.
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| | Drupal core comes with a built-in structure called an installation profile. An install profile is a specific set of features and configurations that get built when the site is installed. Drupal has almost always had some variety of install profile, but with Drupal 7 they became a whole lot easier to create and understand.
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| I recently got interested in a few actively managed mutual funds from Morgan Stanley. They had high expense ratio and turnover rate but I thought, if their stellar performance continued from 2020, the extra costs would be worth it. However, that wasn't the right way to think about it. While cliched, it is true that past performance doesn't gurantee future results. I also don't control or understand the factors that go into stock selection behind the scenes - I can only trust the fund managers. CPOAX, for instance, had a really good 2020 but, when I looked back for 2 year time frames, it rarely outperformed VTSAX. I shouldn't be blindsided by a single year's performance, that too 2020 when the whole market was exuberant. There is plenty of historical evidence...