About

Welcome to #SoftwareResilience. This site / newsletter was meant to be a journal for the highlights and key findings of my academic journey in the fields of Open Source Software Engineering and Software Resilience. In 2018, I started a PhD, trying to identify the key elements that make Open Source Software projects resilient. 5+ years later, I have not (yet) gotten my PhD, but I have a better idea on how software and resilience are connected. During September 2023, I successfully completed my Ph.D. 🖖 and now I can finally tell you “all about this journey” 🤓.

As you can already imagine (or judge from personal experience) resilience in software is a very complex concept. In order to approach it, we need to be able to examine a software (open or inner sourced, it doesn’t make that much of a difference) from different perspectives. Source code is one perspective. Business and legal aspects, are two other perspectives. The people building the software (the employees of a company, the community of an open source software projects, and so forth) is another perspective. There are more!

Topics

In general, the topics on this site / newsletter will revolve around:

🗻 Software Resilience for Open or Inner Source Projects
🛠️ Software Development (i.e. software quality, coding standards, documentation, etc.)
🌀 Software Processes (i.e. agile methodologies, software development lifecycle, etc.)
🧑‍💻 People (i.e. collaboration, co-creation, leadership, management, etc.)

I am also thinking of making use of the notes section to share with you interesting resources and references I come across occasionally. I will be happy to engage with you on a conversation via comments (either on the posts or the notes) and have the chance to learn from your comments and insights 🙇.

A couple of things about me

I am Apostolos, a software engineer “made in Greece”. I am currently based in Thessaloniki (my hometown) serving (remotely) as an Engineering Team Lead at Toggl, where we build top-notch software as a service (SaaS) products, that help companies to track time, project plan and hire people effectively. I hold a PhD. in Software Resilience and Open Source Software Engineering, which was the motivation for this site / newsletter to be created in the first place.

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Thank you for stopping by,
Apostolos