I just published a post helping people fine-tune their own LLMs:

There's an accompanying git repo here: github.com/ianmiell/fin...

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When I used it, I was crying out for a CLI (maybe one exists?).

See you in about 3 years, when you're done. It's insane.

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I've been posting about how I'm writing a book on 'Money Flows' for engineers, going beyond Conway's Law...

You can get 30-day access to the O’Reilly platform using this link. Please repost!

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Follow the Money Why do great engineers and team leads stumble when scaling up? Why do thriving businesses fumble large-scale technical transformations? At its core, a business is a way of managing... - Selection from...

Pleased to announce that my book 'Follow the Money' is now in early release with O'Reilly!

Building on Conway's Law, FTM argues that comms structures are molded by 'money flows'. Reading this will enable you to fix organisation problems that hold you back.

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@pidster.com hey, I need to talk to you about something - how do I best contact you?

I see the bots have arrived on bluesky... I guess it's officially mainstream now...

Me talking to infoq about the book I'm writing for O'Reilly

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Is this a joke?

If god had meant us not to use vim, he would have made it easier to close.

It mentions our company's open source project, so that's plenty as far as I'm concerned!

If you're not sure who the chief technologist is on your zoom call, it's the one who's having trouble with sound on their laptop.

QCon London: Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit Ian Miell delivered a talk at QCon London 2025 on a modernised approach to compliance, announcing an open-source project that aims to solve many of the problems seen in the audit and compliance proces...

A write-up from InfoQ on my talk yesterday about shifting audits left

www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

😔

Those service mesh arguments are getting out of hand

Grabs popcorn

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

> […A] critical consequence of engineers discussing microservices in isolation from the business context is that they more often than not ignore the organisational changes required to make microservices work. > Microservices don’t work in a vacuum. They require teams to be structured in a way that supports them.

Good article from @ianmiell.bsky.social: Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

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#dataBS

Exploring OSCAL Using Neo4J This post is aimed at those interested in continuous compliance, an extension of cloud native principles to the area of software compliance, an under-developed field of software automation. My cons…

I just published this post on using Neo4J to explore NIST's Open Source Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) on my personal blog:

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Where's that?

NB the words are those of the foreword writer, Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (former Mexican Ambassador to the United States, 2007-13)

Everyone talks about Trump’s 19th century approach to tariffs, but there’s a precedent from less than 100 years ago that also involved Canada that’s pertinent here.

From Containers Don’t Lie by Larocco, published 2019

Please RT for reach

Stacey Dooley - Growing Up Gypsy Invited into the traditionally private Gypsy community, Stacey discovers the complex balancing act young women face growing up in one of Britain’s most maligned ethnic minorities.

Just watched this. A lovely film, really quite moving and eye opening. A little gem of a film.

What BBC should be do more of.

Stacey Dooley, Growing Up Gypsy: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028vp5 via @bbciplayer

How do you overheat a hard drive? Or was this in DOGE's hq in Hades?

I had to check i actually said that because it seemed to make more sense than I usually make!

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless

I just published a post on 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices'.

I reached the limit of my patience last week!

blog.container-solutions.com/why-im-no-lo...