George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
I love learning a term for a vague idea that has been with me for a while already; it gives the fuzzy cloud in my head a box to live in and a label to put under... not to mention convenient stowage when I need room for other things. One such illuminating moment was listening … Continue reading Climbing the monolith
What is the right code granularity? I have previously written about reusing functionality [1] in the micro service context and found then that the old aim to optimise code footprint is a metric in need of a good overhaul. Ever since I'm happy that the idea is getting traction: Classes, libraries, applications OOP reuses code … Continue reading Code reusability: from classes to containers
This post discusses a way to increase a service architecture's scalability by removing any communication paths between services and instead burdening clients with that communication. Bureaucracy in real life is a trade-off between ease of work for the applicant vs. ease of work for officers In "Les 12 travaux d'Astérix" [1], Asterix and Obelix are … Continue reading Scalability through client-driven workflows
Every time a technical system impersonates a human in a user story, God drowns a kitten in an agile waterfall.-- Unknown User stories are supposed to advocate the user's view on a system's behaviour. Whatever technical systems which interface with "our" system think or do does not interest us. But why then is it so … Continue reading Of Babylonian kings or why technical users in user stories are OK
Code structures help fit code into your head Every programming course starts with showing a "hello world", moves on to computations, I/O, control structures, data structures and code structures. The necessity for data and code structures doesn't become obvious until one has written a larger programme. Until then (and often even then) it feels like … Continue reading The art of copy & paste in programming
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