Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://revisionarycode.com/">Harry Brumleve</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/hbrumleve">@hbrumleve</a></div> </div> </div> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Harry Brumleve talks with Dave Rael about architecting highly available and highly scalable systems and speaking the truth to power.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Harry Brumleve has been practicing software development for over fifteen years and has worked on projects ranging in size and scope from large-scale, international finance/logistics to garage-scale, social media startups. He currently works as the lead editor of architecture and design for InfoQ.com and as a software architect building a high-availability graphics processing SaaS and a few of its business applications. In his spare time, he likes to head to the Rocky Mountains for a quick hike with his wife and his faithful dog.</span></p> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Harry Brumleve</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Harry's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Speaking truth to power</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Harry up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Stories of failure - embracing the failure and not letting it define you</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Harry's greatest success story</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Career path and hot Harry decides what projects to tackle</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Harry stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Harry's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - What has Harry most excited currently</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Things on which Harry geeks out other than software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Harry's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Harry</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201835959/?tag=devonfir-20">The Mythical Man Month</a> - Frederick Brooks - came up in the conversation.<br><a href="http://revisionarycode.com/">Harry's Blog<br></a><a href="http://developeronfire.com/blog/busy-vs-exceptional">Dave's Blog Post regarding allocation of schedule time for improving and long-term focus</a> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Harry's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0978739213/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Release it - Michael Nygard</a></li> </ul> </div> <h6>Harry's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Don't inflict your ideas (share them, don't inflict them)</li> <li>Talk about code changes before upending what someone else has done</li> <li>Make time to get better</li> </ol>
