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One of the best things you can do for your most important, mission-critical qualities, is to hoist them into the architecture itself. Rather than being a day-to-day coding concern, a hoisted quality becomes a part of the system’s skeleton. Just as...
Continue readingOne of the smallest, yet quite important bits of advice I want to give on modeling is a simple one: know your tools.
It’s easy to get caught up in a task or frustrated butting up against the perceived limits of a tool. With a bit of learning, practice...
Continue readingJust the other day, I was working on some performance optimizations for a bit of code and remarked to a former colleague: “I’m worried if we do X, it will be too slow.” That colleague, none other than Rich Hickey, quipped back: “why worry when you...
Continue readingFor this next sneak peak of Application Architecture for Developers, I wanted to spend some time exploring risk. How we observe and react to risk during software development directly relates to whether we’re sloppy, overdoing it, or just right. Just...
Continue readingRendering advice about modelling is tricky. There is so much context and style wrapped up in it, that it can be hard to distill the cogent bits of wisdom. Regardless of the context, two mistakes I see crop up again and again are poor or missing legends...
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