Member-only story
Agile Wins, ARM Savings, Secure Open Source, and Smarter MySQL -All in One Dispatch
Every week, I come across a handful of things that make me pause and think, “More dev teams should know this.” Sometimes it’s a tiny process tweak. Sometimes it’s an underused AWS option. Sometimes it’s just a smarter default you didn’t realize was already helping you out.
In this edition, I’m sharing four such picks: an agile habit that actually works, an easy AWS cost saver, a way to spot trustworthy open source tools, and a MySQL tip that might save you hours of tuning. No fluff — just things you can put to use right away.
💡 Quick Thought
Developers hate meetings — fair. But if I had to pick just one ritual and one metric to boost delivery, it’d be:
- Ritual: Daily standups
- Metric: Work In Progress (WIP) per developer — keep it between 1.0 and 1.25
WIP = Total open work items / # of developers
Teams that keep WIP under control ship faster and break less.
💸 Start with AWS Graviton Instances
If you’re just getting started with AWS — or looking to cut cloud costs — my first recommendation is simple: go Graviton
