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is this it? is a personal blog at isthisit.nz about programming and philosophy. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “State of the Dora DevOps Metrics in 2022”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on engineering delivery metrics, such as delivery lead time, deployment frequency and critiques of the DORA metrics. It also has a post on domain modelling with F#.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- State of the Dora DevOps Metrics in 20223 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-23
- A Simple Computation Engine in F#2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-10
- Delivery Lead Time in Practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-14
- Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-07
- Building a ChatGPT-Enhanced Python REPL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-18
What Hacker News says?
I'll be reading Domain Modeling Made Functional [1], which seems fun as it applies F#/ML/FP concepts to "enterprisey" DDD. [1] https://isthisit.nz/posts/2019/domain-modeling-made-function...
Comment linking /posts/2019/domain-modeling-made-functional
on “Ask HN: Technical Summer Reading List”Submitted Cellular Automata in F# as a story · 94 points
HN discussionAuthor here. The targets you set for Delivery Lead Time and Deployment Frequency should be determined by your organisation and your team. Context matters. I've been at an organisation where upper management introduced the Accelerate/DORA targets verbatim. These numbers did not resonate at all with engineers and so saw little to no adoption. Accelerate was published four years ago and understanding of the 'four DORA…
Comment linking /posts/2022/state-of-the-dora-devops-metrics/
on “Delivery Lead Time in Practice”Submitted Delivery Lead Time in Practice as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI'm sure you have seen it already, but there has been some sound criticism of the DORA metrics: https://isthisit.nz/posts/2022/state-of-the-dora-devops-metr... Though I disagree with Logan about the change failure rate (see https://two-wrongs.com/you-can-reliably-measure-change-failu... ), I still think he is spot on in terms of MTTR. Strongly seconding Reinertsen for anyone interested in this, though. I think this…
Comment linking /posts/2022/state-of-the-dora-devops-metrics/
on “DevEx: What Drives Productivity”Submitted Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Computation Engine in F# as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DevOps Practices for Continuous Deployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned about Product Delivery in 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Productivity, GenAI, Metrics, Toil as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prompting GPT Models to Return JSON as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a ChatGPT Enhanced REPL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a ChatGPT-Enhanced Python REPL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delivery Driven Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Computation Engine in F# as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delivery Lead Time in Practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of the Dora DevOps Metrics in 2022 as a story · 1 points
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