James Warrick — Blog

From punch cards to print statements, programming has been a long effort to remember less.

We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use.

In his 2015 shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos talks about two types of decisions - those that are best represented as one-way doors, and those that are more like two-way doors.

Corso recently released our analytics AI feature under a beta tag, and as is our tradition we wanted to show how we built it.

In both the fog of war and the chaos of business, it's very difficult to be successful without defining both what you are trying to accomplish and how you intend to accomplish i...

There's hardly a single piece of software available today that hasn't made a big deal out of adding AI functionality.

The idea of bundling software and services together has been around for about as long as there has been software.

Modern data infrastructure has become quite complex.

I've been saying for years that I would write a book on the parallels between parenthood and managing people.

Your computer is a collection of electronics like a hard drive, processor, display, networking, etc.

I've been actively involved in E-commerce for a few years now, and one of the most impactful trends I'm seeing is consolidation among the apps and services used by merchants.

If you have been building software for a while, you've undoubtedly heard "Don't Repeat Yourself", commonly shortened to DRY.

One of the most valuable features of a returns, exchanges, and warranties platform is automations.

If you've ever broken an ankle, gone through a procedure that immobilized part of your leg, or done anything else that required you to use crutches, you were probably very thank...

Untangling the complexity with our favorite database

Remember your first job?

I've written before about how various commercialized forms of "Agile" development completely stripped the original agile manifesto of everything it was supposed to be.

Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, leadership and management are distinct concepts.

Many companies do some form of software development.

Everyone loves the delivery of new software features.

Software development estimates are often a major point of contention and misunderstanding.

I've been intrigued over the years watching various machine learning techniques steadily progress.

A desire for control is a core human trait.

Full stack developers are highly sought after in the software engineering world, for good reason.

Choosing a technology can be a difficult, stressful, time-consuming process.

When I worked in the US Department of Defense, our computer systems had password requirements that were the stuff of legend. 3 lowercase letters, 3 uppercase letters, 3 numbers,...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) famously has 344 single points of failure – meaning that there are 344 individual things that could go wrong, any one of which would render...

I'm excited to announce that I'm part of Corso, a company dedicated to providing high-impact solutions to e-commerce merchants and their customers.

The concept of 5 whys is frequently trotted out as a formula for root cause analysis.

I love the Agile Manifesto.

During my childhood, I always wanted to play an instrument, but for a variety of reasons, it just wasn't in the cards for me.

One of the most impactful shifts over the last decade in information technology has been the rise of low-code solutions.

When the Wall Street Journal recently published this opinion piece, it caused quite a few ripples.

I recently ran into the error shown above (Hasura console is not able to reach your Hasura CLI instance.

If you have spent any time at all in the world of business, you will have come across different books that claim to have insight into how you can run your business better, be a ...

I recently wrote about why future-proofing as we generally think of it isn't possible, and why the next best thing we can work towards is flexible software.

At any business where software is built, strategic decision-makers need to have a basic competence with technology and understand the principles of software development.

For those of you working in software development, especially enterprise software, how many times have you been told you need to "future-proof" what you are building?

Yes, this title is a bit of a hot take, and I could be reasonably accused of manufacturing a clickbaity headline.

During a shareholder meeting in 2011, Jeff Bezos was asked a question: "If it's still Amazon's philosophy to make bold bets, I would expect that maybe some of them wouldn't work...

The concept of a Minimum Viable Product has been popularized to the point that the phrase is used without even thinking about it.

Since my opening post explained the importance of context when interpreting information, it seems appropriate to provide some context to help interpret what I write.

"If content is king, then context is god!"