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The biggest bottlenecks in the software lifecycle have nothing to do with code. They’re people problems: communication, persuasion, decision-making.

How do you reliably get the right people in the right place, at the right time, talking about the right things? Is there a transfer protocol or infrastructure-as-code tool that works on human beings?

As it happens, yes.

My latest byline:

🔗 stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/20/

stackoverflow.blogDocuments: The architect’s programming language - Stack Overflow

You’ve probably seen `use function strlen` in PHP and shrugged.

But here’s the twist: in certain cases, it activates a special compiler optimization in PHP that makes some functions significantly faster.

This is your eureka moment! Here’s how it works, when it matters, and how to adopt it easily: tideways.com/profiler/blog/com