Model View Controller is a design pattern very utilized nowadays. But do you know where it comes from? And did you know that it was first used on a large scale in 1970s? Watch this deep dive into the history of MVC, starting from a Quora answer by Alan Kay. In doing so, you will […]
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Software development organizations working in silos are often facing the situation of bottlenecks appearing on the delivery chain. The typical management reaction is to optimize locally, thus putting more pressure on the bottleneck while failing to improve the whole chain. Theory of Constraints is a way for managers to remove bottlenecks while improving the whole
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Are feature branches evil? Is trunk based development the solution to your problems? Or is there something more to it? (Spoiler warning: we believe that incremental thinking is the solution to the root problem) Alex shares his thoughts on Thierry de Pauw’s article and talk “Feature Branches Considered Evil”. Check out Thierry’s article here: https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/07/14/on-the-evilness-of-feature-branching-a-tale-of-two-teams.html
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What is software architecture? Should there be a software architect role, particularly in agile teams? Or will the team take over? Watch the video for answers and more. Alex reacts to the InfoQ article “Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is” written by Pierre Pureur and Kurt Bittner and reviewed by
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If you know the birth date of a person and the current date, what age is that person? The answer is: it depends on location. We react in this video to the South Korean way of computing age, and to other falsehoods programmers believe. And we give advice on how to be prepared for the
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Are full-stack developers still possible? How about T-shaped? We discuss this topic, starting from a tweet by Ferdinando Santacroce https://twitter.com/jesuswasrasta/status/1509802299840995328
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In April 2021, InfoQ has published a report on trends in architecture and design: https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2021/. In this video, Alex reacts to it, offering advice to software architects and programmers interested in architecture. Spoilers: it’s best to learn about the fundamental principles of software design and architecture. If you want to learn more about architecture, check
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What is Domain Driven Design really about? How do we apply its techniques? And how can developers start with it? We discuss this and more with Mathias Verraes. Mathias is a student of systems, founder of DDD Europe conference, founder of Aardling, a boutique consultancy that advises organisations on designing software for complex environments. He
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Does JIRA help agility? Does it hinder it? Why do some people love it and others hate it? We decided to tackle the elephant in many agile rooms, and react to a few articles about JIRA vs. agility. Here are the links: https://www.andykelk.net/agile/why-all-the-jira-hate-ill-tell-you-why https://deviniti.com/blog/enterprise-software/why-hate-jira/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/11/death-to-jira/ Adi Bolboaca is a VP, trainer and coach at
We debunk a few myths about programming submitted from twitter: Pair programming is pay two people for doing one person job Business people can’t understand technical stuff. Developers can’t understand business stuff Writing software is a mere technical job You have to do … (agile, scrum, kanban, whateva) A high skilled software developer is always
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