We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.

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Over the years many people have complained about the so-called “religiosity” of some of the proponents of Test Driven Development. The recent brouhaha over TDD has, once again, brought these complaints to the fore. So I thought it would be a good idea to…

I should have written this article two years ago, just after I published Product vs. Feature Teams. I suspected then that I should follow up that article highlighting the difference between product and project teams, but in truth I fell victim to wishful…

TL;DR: This article provides an overview on several ideas I have been exploring on how Sociotechnical Architecture and Systems Thinking are key to enabling achieving the goals of Product thinking: "maximize the value exchange with the customer, continuously…

I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or…

Thierry de Pauw: consulting CTO - IT Delivery Consultant - IT Engineer - Conway’s three other laws

Many organizations have limited awareness about modern software and technology, even though software is essential for them. Use the Clueful Index to separate the clueless organizations from the clu...

There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing. Not only has cloud already impacted hundreds of billions of dollars of IT spend, it’s still in early innings and …

I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project…

Chris James, London - Software Engineer

It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

One of the challenges of migrating your system’s architecture is excluding non-desirable attributes and leaving the target state uncorrupted. An event-driven architecture and its related patterns, CQRS and Event Sourcing, are positioned well to introduce…

Implementing an 8080 emulator in a microservice architecture on top of kubernetes

Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. The way we work, the work we do, and the organizations within which we work are all part of a connected system. You cannot change anything without changing everything. You…

🗓️ Upcoming developer events: https://dev.events Since Kent Beck wrote the book on TDD in 2002 a lot of words have been dedicated to the subject. But many of them propagated misunderstandings of Kent's original rules so that TDD practice bears little resemblance…