Evolving Architectures – Part V – Leaps
When talking about “evolving architectures” a “leap” is one of the worst things that can happen. In the previous installment in this series I defined Kent Beck’s “Leap” design strategy in the context of Software architecture as “Leap – is for when you know where you’re heading and you can afford to stop everything until the new way is in...
Read MoreEvolving Architectures – Part IV – Design mechanics
If we want to evolve architectures or change an existing architecture in general, for that matter, it is important to understand design mechanics. I recently attended a seminar with Kent Beck that talked about “responsive design”, where he provided a good definition for 5 strategies or types of design mechanics*: Leap Parallel Simplification Stepping Stone “Just Do...
Read MoreWho needs an architect anyway?
Not all projects need architects. There, I’ve said it. Not all projects need architects and I am not talking here just about trivial projects. There are cases (maybe even many cases) where you can get by with what I call “off-the-shelf” architecture – maybe with a few adjustments that any master developer (i.e. seasoned and experienced developer) can handle. For instance a...
Read MoreEvolving Architectures – Part III starting out
Before we talk about the what/how let’s do a quick recap on the why we’re here: Architecture is important to software projects Architecture and agile have some conflicting forces that needs to be reconciled (e.g. up-front work, hard to change vs. delivering business value quickly and embracing change) design can be emergent but architectures can’t and must be grown...
Read MoreEvolving Architectures – Part II but Design is emergent
This is part II of a series on agile architecture. You can read part I here. In the previous installment I provided a definition for software architecture and raised the apparent friction between the up front design implied by software architecture and the YAGNI approach and deferred requirements prompted by agile development in the large. This installment take a look at an additional angle of...
Read MoreEvolving Architectures – Part I What’s Software Architecture
I’m writing a short series of posts for MS Israel MCS blog (in Hebrew) and I’d thought I’d translate them to English, as it seems to me they are interesting enough. In this series I am going to talk about Evolutionary Architecture or , some of the aspect of dealing with software architecture in agile projects. The topic is interesting since architecture and agile seems to have some...
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What I am reading
- Survey Says: We're Not as Agile as We Claim ScottAmbler
- Sharding with Hibernate Andy
- The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs Ayende Rahien
- The Importance of Nurturing Community Mark Levison
- Kailuo Wang: Testing private methods in RSpec noreply@blogger.com (Kailuo Wang)
- Microsoft had a 'priority email inbox' way before Google, and has patents to prove it Sebastian Anthony
- Scale-out vs Scale-up Nati Shalom
- What's New in CouchDB 1.0 Security 'n Stuff Damien Katz
- Monitoring Applications deployed on PaaS (Windows Azure) … Business as usual Grace.Mollison
- Kailuo Wang: What drives my designing in TDD noreply@blogger.com (Kailuo Wang)
Me elsewhere