“It's not every day you learn of a really smart company setting out to prove that managers don't matter. But that's exactly what Google did with Project Oxygen.” 

“Have you gotten around to trying this “serverless” stuff out?

I recently had to scratch my own itch and put together a couple small utilities, one with an AWS Lambda, and the other with an Azure Function.

Have you wondered if one was better than the other?

The experiences were… similar, but also quite different, and thus I share a .NET developer’s perspective of each.” 

I found this article very interesting, as it touches on writing automated tests for valid states only and not worry about states that theoretically would never be allowed by a function. What is your take? 

“IT organizations are getting better at change management, but there are still many that “throw projects over the fence” and expect adoption. In some cases, senior business partners accept or even promote this approach. Your enterprise may achieve some success with informal change management, but you’ll never realize a project’s full business value unless you have buy-in and engagement from the ultimate users. That requires change management.” 

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