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Monolith First (2015)
Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building a monolithic system first. Split to microservices when, and if, you need it.
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Software Architecture Guide
Software Architecture is the important aspects of a software system's internal design, usually its major components and aspects that are hard to change.
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LLM Voice
The uncanny valley of LLMs' prose
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Technical Debt
Technical Debt is a metaphor for the consequences of cruft. You either have to accept a drag on further features (paying interest) or fix the software (paying the principal)
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An example of LLM prompting for programming
Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.
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Stepping Back from Speaking
a short post
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Serverless Architectures
Serverless architectures replace a managed server with a collection of third party services and FaaS
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Is TDD Dead? (2014)
A series of conversations between Kent Beck, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Martin Fowler. We discuss Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its impact upon software design.
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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
To be successful at digital transformation you need to optimize the key feedback loops in your software engineering organization
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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
a short post
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Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month
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Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
three layers of system health, AI as cognitive system 3, what's expensive if agents make coding free, and the future of source code
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The role of developer skills in agentic coding
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.
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ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity
Thoughtworks is acquired by Apax Funds. The current management team will continue to run the company as before.
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Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)
A catalog of patterns to better understand, communicate, and teach the design of distributed systems
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Micro Frontends
How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.
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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?
Some notes on the different patterns that may be present when people talk about event-driven architectures.
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You Can't Buy Integration
The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration
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Yagni
Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality.
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Products Over Projects
Projects are a popular way of organizing software efforts, but long-running product teams are often superior
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I Don't Like LLMs
a short post
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Paxos
Use two consensus building phases to reach safe consensus even when nodes disconnect
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Product vs. Engineering
Friction Between Product and Engineering; Lack of trust and collaboration slowing down product growth
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The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
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Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB
A memory image replaces database interactions with in-memory data using event sourcing to record persistent changes
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The Basics of Web Application Security
Security is both very important and often under-emphasized. While many targeted techniques help, there are some basic clean code habits which every developer can and should be doing
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Announcing the Second Edition of “Refactoring”
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
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The State of Agile Software in 2018
Agile Software Development may be mainstream, but much of what's done is faux-agile, and we need to push back.