A reference for readers familiar with the DORA metrics. This is a mixture of information from the DORA reports, external authors, and my own experience in applying the DORA metrics across a large technology organisation.

If you’re new to the DORA metrics then first read State of the DORA Metrics 2022.

The State of DevOps Reports found that high performing organisations showed strong results in this set of …

Our efforts, those of the ill-fortuned;
our efforts are the efforts of the Trojans.
We will make a bit of progress; we will start
to pick ourselves up a bit; and we’ll begin
to be intrepid, and to have some hope.

But something always comes up, and stops us cold.
In the trench in front of us Achilles
emerges, and affrights us with his shouting –

Our efforts are the efforts of the Trojans.
We imagine that with resolve and daring
we will reverse the animosity of fortune,
and so we take …

In writing LParen, a Lisp interpreter, the single Nolan-esque mind-bending idea for me has been implementing code execution. I can write a function, which itself is just a data structure, and execute it in the interpreter as a general computation. Characters, symbols, and numbers which previously used to only mean something now do something.

Take these ASCII characters which claim to compute the fibonacci number sequence. It’s only by galactic chance that when these characters are passed …

• Determine whether Data Mesh is a software architecture, philosophy, cryptocurrency, or cult.
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