Certain things in software development change quickly: languages, technologies, tools. Others have not changed for decades: practices, paradigms, heuristics. In this video, Alex shows how to find the fundamentals and why it’s important to focus on them.
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Yesterday, I was the guest speaker for the Cloud Native Meetup Group from Bucharest. I gave a talk in Romanian about laws, principles, and practices for microservices architecture. Check out the recording below or on YouTube. If you’d like us to record the same talk in English, in studio settings, please let us know in
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Alex reacts to an InfoQ article about a process for finding metrics, and a list of metrics useful for software development. The article is here: https://www.infoq.com/articles/metrics-quality-software/.
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When you start developing based on your architecture, you are entering a socio-technical system, a system that will evolve in various directions depending on outside and internal factors. This evolution is difficult to manage, and a potential solution is to use the concept of architectural fitness functions. In this video, we look at what they
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Is project management part of agility? Or is agile and project management in an unsolvable conflict? We discuss about project management vs agility, starting from a tweet by Thierry de Pauw and the replies he got: https://twitter.com/tdpauw/status/1609596163564490756?t=8O2-EOXOwR-HT1v0ywGejg&s=09. We also discuss Johanna Rothman’s article “How To Recognize Effective Project and Program Management” https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/01/how-to-recognize-effective-project-and-program-management/
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Happy New Year 2023 everyone! Since it’s a new year, we thought about starting it with a commentary and analysis on software development trends. Relevant links:
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It’s not a secret that we love learning! In this video, Alex recaps his top learnings from 2022. Relevant links:
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Here’s a hypothesis: all software development problems have multiple solutions on a socio-technical continuum. Find out more in the video :).
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Samir Talwar is a software engineer, one of the fastest programmers we know, currently working at Digital Asset in Zurich. We invited him to discuss about his experiences with a startup, starting from his articles on what he learned: https://monospacedmonologues.com/2022/04/lessons-from-a-failed-startup–introduction/.
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The news of Fred Brooks dying today has inspired us to revisit his contributions to the field of software development. RIP and thank you Mr Brooks!
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