Steve Fenton is a programmer, (hands-on) architect, and theory-y/human-centric manager mostly working around the .NET space. He enjoys creating software that makes a difference to people’s lives; such as mail transfer agents with zero-day threat detection or clinical decision support engines. Steve has been active in the whole DevOps life-cycle and enjoys coaching people on agile and lean methods (and the theories behind them). He also enjoys finding fractal principles; such as those found in monitoring and alerting, or in queuing theory.
Books by Steve Fenton
A Note From Steve
This is my personal journal where I store ideas, notes, and information to supplement my biological abilities. My interests are programming, psychology, philosophy and critical thinking, and the Oxford Comma. The journal largely covers the order software progressio and the families modum translitterandi, processus, and populus. I am also secretly S. M. Fenton the author of The Vanishing Room.
Recent Journals
You can review my full archive of journals, but the most recent entries are listed below.
- Budgets Not Estimates Posted in: Process - This is an early view over a process we are experimenting with in my organisation; budgets not estimates. It represents…
- Make HAProxy Strip Spaces From a Request Header Posted in: Programming - There is some shared code out in the wild that browser extensions are using to make requests, which might cause…
- The Microservices vs Conway Test Posted in: Programming - Following on from my article on Mescoservices back in 2015, this article expands on an idea I had in September…
- Why Devs (Should) Understand Estimates Posted in: Process, Programming - Yes, this is a sub-post! A reaction to a post titled "Why Devs (Should) Like Estimates". I try not to…
- Disable Swipe Navigation in Chrome and Edge (Chromium Edition) Posted in: Browsers - There's a feature in Google Chrome and the new Chromium version of Microsoft Edge that navigates back or forward through…
- The Best Browser Extensions for Analytics and Tag Debugging Posted in: Analytics, Browsers - Recently, I wrote about debugging Adobe Analytics, which uses the most widely-available tools that we all have; browser developer tools.…
- Meet the Trello Butler Posted in: Automation - Most of my time is spent in technical-land, where we use tools such as Azure DevOps to manage the flow…
- How to Decouple Adobe Analytics From Your Website Posted in: Analytics - Websites change. Often. If your analytics depend too much on the exact implementation details of your website your world will…
- Change Your Process at Regular Intervals Posted in: Process - The Apprentice (UK). It started out as a show that offered the prize of a job working for Sir (now…
- Simple Modern Paging in SQL Server – Like Skip and Take Posted in: Programming - If you have been developing SQL Server databases for a while, you may remember performing neat tricks to implement paging.…