Author: Shawn Jackson
I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.
As micropreneurs we are always working. Even on my ‘days off’ I’m on the couch with my laptop working on code or business issues. Businesses with lots of staff have the luxury of ‘someone else will handle that’, in our world we are that someone else. So being able to work effectively and efficiently on
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Every day I get exposed to different architectures and designs for systems. It’s a great contrast to see how a large company tends to have pretty complex software architectures compared to software I’ve designed outside the large company environment. There are many reasons for this, some of it is developers trying to show off, justifying
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In this highly interconnected world our products or services rarely operate in complete isolation. We rely on 3rd or external parties for services or logic that we’d rather no do ourselves, well at least most of us. When I first started in software development I always did it myself. “My solution will be better, it
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