Base Camp Blog

The slides and the talk from my session on drift in SAP BTP.

Nobody ever says it out loud, but half the time the job you walk into isn't the one you were interviewed for. You get tested on how to design something on a whiteboard. You start and it's a tyre fire.

AI amplifies what you bring to it. I brought a question and got five wrong answers. Once the underlying system was understood, the partnership worked and the work shipped. Context made the difference.

We're rebuilding the same pattern that slowed us down last time. The pattern where everything has to pass through one place before it can move.

You designed the system to last. Your assumptions didn’t. The fortress is already in the river and nobody saw it happen. BTP moves whether you do or not. Another expert won’t stop the drift.

I jumped straight to Chapter 11 on Durable Execution and hit a wall. Going back to Chapter 1 taught me why mental models matter more than memorizing patterns and frameworks. This review explains why you can't skip the fundamentals.