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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/how-we-run-blue-green-deployments</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>How We Run Blue-Green Deployments</news:title>
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      <news:image>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/how-to-let-someone-go-with-dignity</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>How to Let Someone Go With Dignity</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>How to Let Someone Go With Dignity</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/the-case-for-boring-technology-in-fintech</loc>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>The Case for Boring Technology in Fintech</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>The Case for Boring Technology in Fintech</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/the-two-pizza-team-rule-revisited</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>The Two-Pizza Team Rule, Revisited</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>The Two-Pizza Team Rule, Revisited</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/building-a-rules-engine-you-can-actually-maintain</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Building a Rules Engine You Can Actually Maintain</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
      <news:image>
        <news:url>https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1460925895917-afdab827c52f?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1200&amp;q=80</news:url>
        <news:caption>Building a Rules Engine You Can Actually Maintain</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/running-sprint-planning-that-people-respect</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Running Sprint Planning That People Respect</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Running Sprint Planning That People Respect</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/what-a-decade-in-fintech-taught-me</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>What a Decade in Fintech Taught Me</news:title>
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      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>What a Decade in Fintech Taught Me</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/designing-safe-database-schema-changes</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Designing Safe Database Schema Changes</news:title>
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        <news:caption>Designing Safe Database Schema Changes</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/the-habits-of-calm-engineering-teams</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>The Habits of Calm Engineering Teams</news:title>
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        <news:caption>The Habits of Calm Engineering Teams</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/observability-beyond-logging</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Observability Beyond Logging</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Observability Beyond Logging</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/when-to-build-vs-buy</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>When to Build vs Buy</news:title>
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        <news:caption>When to Build vs Buy</news:caption>
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  <url>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Handling Timezones and Dates Correctly</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>Handling Timezones and Dates Correctly</news:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://anselmfowel.com/blog/protecting-maker-time-on-an-engineering-team</loc>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Protecting Maker Time on an Engineering Team</news:title>
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      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>Protecting Maker Time on an Engineering Team</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Designing a Settlement System</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Designing a Settlement System</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>The Leader&apos;s Job During a Reorg</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>The Leader&apos;s Job During a Reorg</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Connection Pooling and Why It Matters</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Connection Pooling and Why It Matters</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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        <news:caption>How to Disagree and Commit</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Building a Notification Service That Scales</news:caption>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>The Right Way to Run a Postmortem</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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        <news:caption>Circuit Breakers and Graceful Degradation</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Building a Culture of Documentation</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>The Engineer-to-Lead Transition</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>The Cost of Always Being Available</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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        <news:caption>Understanding Webhook Signatures</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Making Skip-Level 1-on-1s Useful</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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        <news:caption>API Versioning Strategies</news:caption>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>The Underrated Skill of Writing Good Tickets</news:title>
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        <news:caption>The Underrated Skill of Writing Good Tickets</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Building Multi-Currency Support</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Building Multi-Currency Support</news:caption>
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  <url>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Why Great Engineers Sometimes Make Poor Managers</news:caption>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>The Outbox Pattern for Reliable Events</news:caption>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Leading Through Uncertainty</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
      <news:image>
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        <news:caption>Leading Through Uncertainty</news:caption>
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      <news:publication>
        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:title>Career Ladders That Actually Motivate</news:title>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Career Ladders That Actually Motivate</news:caption>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Building a Fraud Detection Pipeline</news:caption>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Structured Logging in .NET</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Handling a Production Incident Calmly</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Delegation Is a Skill, Not a Reflex</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Why Software Estimates Are Hard</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>Feature Flags Done Right</news:caption>
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        <news:caption>The Quiet Power of Writing Things Down</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>Hiring for Potential vs Experience</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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        <news:caption>The Case for Architecture Decision Records</news:caption>
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        <news:name>Anselm Fowel</news:name>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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      <news:genres>Tech, Opinion</news:genres>
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      <news:title>Idempotency Keys Explained Simply</news:title>
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