It’s now about two weeks since the HMRCs splurge on getting the UK to go out for a meal has finished. In discount dining finder I showed how to make a map-based tool to search all Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) establishments in very little time. What follows is the story of what happened after the site launched, and how I failed to make a dent at marketing. To recap:

This post describes how I developed the Discount Dining Finder a lookup map tool for the Eat Out to Help Out scheme in my spare time. I currently work with Equal Experts and HMRC. The aim of this writing is to provide an insight into how problems of scaling services can be solved by having no servers and not using “serverless services” either. Aperitif A really nice side effect in working in a high functioning environment is that sometimes you’re involved in bouncing ideas off each other.

To successfully deliver software a developer needs a shield and a sword. A good product owner, delivery manager or alike that will shield the engineers from having to attend too many meetings, giving long-winded status updates and essentially allow them to get on with it. Shields go to all the meetings with the “business” and explain what can and cannot be done, without the engineer having to attend. A shield would also filter all the last-minute requirements or requests for gold plating without having to be dragged into endless meetings.