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 …
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.
Here is our monthly selection of knowledge on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about programmer burnout, test automation, negotiation, maintenance, refactoring, software architecture, agile testing, technical debt, test management and retrospectives.
The naive view of agile software development is that everyone just dives in and starts writing code without spending any time at the beginning working out what to do.
It is easy to do a proof-of-concept but hard to make something “production-ready*. Maintainability is complex in distributed systems, and become extremely complicated for a microservices software architecture. This presentation takes a look at the common traps producing a gap between “should work” and “works”. It also discusses costs which …
Here is a list of the articles published during the first quarter of 2018 on the Methods & Tools website. This quarter Methods & Tools has published articles discussing hiring of Scrum product owners or software architects. We also published two articles presenting open source software testing tools: PerfCake is …
