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Consolidating Systems

The topic for the May 6th, 2025 chat is consolidating systems. Organizations often have data and business logic in several different databases and applications. They would like to have everything in one place, which is a noble goal but hard to achieve.

How do you consolidate these disparate systems? How do you avoid creating an extra system and avoid the XKCD standards problem (substitute application for standards).

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Essential Tools You Can't Live Without

What are your favourite tools that you can’t imagine working without? This could include linters, IDE extensions, browser extensions, libraries, CLI shortcuts, or whatever else. Are these tools primarily for improving productivity, enhancing communication, or maintaining sanity? Or do you prefer more traditional methods like pen and paper?

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Priorities

There's an old saying: “Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Any Two.” In any work we do, priorities shape the outcome. What priorities guide you? Are you balancing quick results over technical debt? Features over performance? How do you strike a balance between these? Here's a list (unordered 😊), what would you modify? What drives your priorities?

  • UX/UI Design
  • Maintainability
  • Quick Results (Speed to Market)
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Cost Efficiency
  • Feature Completeness
  • Team Productivity (Developer Experience)
  • Innovation and Experimentation
  • Reliability and Stability

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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