I found it insightful, since I haven't really thought of these sorts of situations from management's perspective before. This line in particular helped me understand: "And, it’s not exactly that you think he’s trying to scam you, but… you just wish you had more information and weren’t being blindsided."
Maybe this stuff is obvious and I just lack empathy, I dunno.
If you don't like the shilling for NDepend, you can read pretty much the same stuff over on the author's main website (http://www.daedtech.com/) - he's all about refactoring, legacy code, testing, etc, etc. Even in these NDepend articles, there's usually some useful stuff.
Hey, you don't want ads, we'll give you sponsored content...
A product announcement is far more upfront and honest with its reader. It wasn't until the last third of this post did any action items emerge, 4 of the 5 being use a tool that starts at $337.
Not to mention Docker is open source and has a valid free (as in beer) tier.
I'd also complain about a Docker blog post that lulled you in and then recommended you buy a Docker Datacenter account.
