Jan 16 · 4 min read · This week has flown by. We had an office day this week which is when our team comes into the Octopus office in London and I tend to find that weeks with office days always seem to go super fast. I don’t know what it is about going into London that ma...
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Dec 18, 2025 · 3 min read · React has been the dominant force in frontend development for years, but lately, there's a growing unease in the developer community. What was once celebrated for its simplicity is now facing criticism for complexity, over-engineering, and a directio...
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Dec 2, 2025 · 3 min read · One quiet morning, a group of kids were playing in a park — sunshine, laughter, zero responsibilities. 🏞️Nothing unusual. Nothing dangerous. Then one kid suddenly yelled: “GUYS… this tree is bleeding!” Chaos erupted.Screaming.Children running everyw...
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Nov 14, 2025 · 3 min read · Modernizing legacy applications isn’t just an IT upgrade, it’s a financial imperative that delivers lower operating costs, faster time‑to‑market, and measurable risk reduction. In short, it turns fixed, hard‑to‑maintain assets into strategic, revenue...
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Nov 4, 2025 · 4 min read · Technical debt eats 40% of IT budgets ($85B globally, Forrester 2025), slowing delivery and threatening entire businesses. In Java’s Spring-heavy ecosystem, where logic sprawls across services, even minor changes become high-risk operations. Yet keep...
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Oct 21, 2025 · 4 min read · Mediocre? That just won't suffice. I think about these lyrics from NF's "SUFFICE" almost daily, especially when developing software. For the past couple of years I've been professionally balancing one of my favorite Amazon Leadership Principles, "I...
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Oct 3, 2025 · 1 min read · Over half of CTOs—52%—misjudge their legacy code’s complexity, leading to project overruns and stalled timelines. Many assume that rewriting or replacing systems inherently resolves technical debt. In reality, unquantified debt hides in undocumented ...
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Aug 2, 2025 · 4 min read · From Infrastructure to Education: A New Layer of Debt In my previous post — How Agents and Artificial Intelligence Are Exposing a Broken, Deprecated Infrastructure — I explained why most of today’s frameworks, SDKs, and APIs are unprepared for the de...
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Jul 21, 2025 · 6 min read · The hype around AI coding assistants is deafening. Everywhere you turn, there's a promise of 40% faster coding, reduced burnout, and supercharged developer productivity. But what if the reality, especially for your most experienced engineers, is the ...
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