Mark Fink

I have recently watched Larry Hastings talk about Removing Python’s GIL: The Gilectomy that has been recorded at PyCon 2016. Larry very graphically outlines the problems from not having proper concurrency features. He also tells a nice story on how the Python community is struggling with this situation for the... [Read More]

DevOps is about operations, right? And about applying tools and processes from the Dev space to operations. But QA? Really? What I personally experience driving DevOps transitions is that continuous integration and operations need to work together. People need to realize that these are two sides of the same coin.... [Read More]

This week I am visiting Gotocon Berlin 2015. Today I took part in a crazy workshop by Jez Humble and by crazy I mean crazy-good. We were discussing how difficult it actually is to implement sufficiently good Agile practices in todays enterprises. Jez made multiple reports on what he calls... [Read More]

I work as a freelancer in technical testing, so software quality is something very dear to me. Agile software development tremendously helps with that. But discussions of Agile software development often drift towards development methodologies like Scrum vs. Kanban. I think this discussion is healthy but sometimes misses the point... [Read More]

Usually I blog here about robotics and microcontrollers so you might not know that I actually work in technical testing. But it is true, at least during daylight. So in my spare time I focus on my private projects. Consequently I do not blog about work but sometimes I stumble... [Read More]