Quote of the Month February 2019 – Testing The Right Thing
To avoid wasting time finding bugs that are not related to performance, it is important to have a stable application that has been thoroughly tested.
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Software development quotes
Quote of the Month January 2019 – Continuous Delivery
Before agile many companies and teams considered a three month release cycle as aggressive, an annual release was more common. Agile started to ask teams to make fortnightly releases, or at the very least be able to release every two weeks. Being releasable was more important than actual releasing because …
Quote of the Month December 2018 – Reducing Coupling
Despite that fact that architects and developers know that tight coupling leads to increased complexity, we experience large object models growing out of control on an almost daily basis. In practice, this leads to performance problems and lack of transactional integrity. There are many reasons why this happens: the inherent …
Quote of the Month November 2018 – Product Discovery
I know plenty of teams that do all the right research activities, but these activities don’t influence their product decisions. They set out to build the same solutions they intended to build before they did their research activities.
Quote of the Month October 2018 – Monolithic Software Architecture
Most of the complaints you hear about monolithic architecture can be traced directly to poor and/or accidental design. if you leverage similar design practices to create a distributed system, no amount of observability will save you.
Quote of the Month September 2018 – Reliability vs. Productivity
Too many developers have an unrealistic view of the relationship between the quality of their software and the time and cost of creating it. The received wisdom is that more reliable software takes longer to write.