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Like many of us, I spend a large part of my day at my desk.  Some of you may have heard about health issues from sitting too much.  Have you heard the disturbing phrase 'sitting is the new smoking'?  I have observed that too much sitting, especially at a desk in front of a computer, can lead to specific health issues: back issues, pinched nerves, core muscle atrophy, reduced circulation.  

Myth: Software Developers Dislike Meetings

Everybody likes a good meeting. Well, as long as they don’t have pressures to build/create something in a too-short time, which is rarely for software developers. Development pressures aside, interacting with our colleagues can provide enjoyment and stimulation - even for developers.

Why then the myth that developers dislike meetings?

Safe Work Australia considers the following to be a type of workplace bullying:

setting unreasonable timelines or constantly changing deadlines

They cite these examples of indirect bullying:

• changing work rosters and leave, to deliberately

  inconvenience a particular employee(s)

• deliberately excluding someone from workplace activities

Amazon practices continuous deployment.  Changes are automatically deployed to production multiple times a day by continuous deployment pipelines. Staff rarely has to spend time carefully shepherding each of those deployments and watching logs and metrics for any impact. Because the pipelines do the work for each team, most deployments aren't actively watched by anyone. This is how these “hands-off” automated deployments work.

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