Vettel clinched his fourth consecutive F1 world championship in India this week, while Man United sit in ninth place under Moyes. One year after winning the league under Ferguson. Rebuilds can be fast when the culture changes, and it turns out so can collapses. Filing that away for reasons I can’t articulate yet.
Battlefield 4 launches this week and the beta was so broken that the community has preemptively named the launch “paid early access.” Between SimCity, healthcare.gov, and this, 2013 is the Year of the Botched Launch. Someone should write a series about… oh wait.
Apple announced the iPad Air. They made the big one small and are charging more, and it’ll work. Meanwhile healthcare.gov is up to a “tech surge,” and the phrase alone gives me hives.
TIL: blue-green deployments. Two identical environments, flip traffic between them, instant rollback. We can’t afford two of everything, but my tech lead had me diagram it anyway. “Learn the pattern before you can afford the pattern,” he says. He’s full of these. I keep a note file called Tech Lead Proverbs.