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29/03/2023

You often can get a better and more specific answer by asking for an answer in the voice of another person, a third party.

I have a nomination, and here is an excerpt from my new paper with Alex: You often can get a better and more specific answer by asking for an answer in the voice of another person, a third party. Here goes: What are the causes of inflation, as it might be explained by Nobel Laureate […]

29/03/2023

Building complex software systems is like playing Conway's Game of Life - unpredictable, complex, and challenging.

But don't worry; as your partner, we'll help you navigate the chaos and emerge with a resilient and adaptable system that'll make your competitors envy you.

As a software system scales it becomes sufficiently large that the number of working parts, coupled with the number of working programmers making changes on it, makes the behaviour of the system extremely difficult to reason about. This complexity is exacerbated by the transition of many organizatio...

20/01/2023

Ever wondered how large enterprise-scale systems are designed? Here's a list of 10 common software architectural patterns.

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https://towardsdatascience.com/10-common-software-architectural-patterns-in-a-nutshell-a0b47a1e9013

Ever wondered how large enterprise scale systems are designed? Before major software development starts, we have to choose a suitable…

20/01/2023

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20/01/2023

Meetings can also be an exceptionally valuable part of a well-run organization. If you’re getting feedback that any given meeting isn’t helpful, iterate on it, and consider pausing it for the time being. It may not be helpful for your organization yet, but don’t give up on the idea of meetings.

https://lethain.com/eng-org-meetings/

Some engineers develop a strong point of view that meetings are a waste of their time. There’s good reason for that perspective, as many meetings are quite bad, but it’s also a bit myopic: meetings can also be an exceptionally valuable part of a well-run organization. If you’re getting feedbac...

17/01/2023

Here are 20 rules of thumb for writing better software. What would you add to the list?

https://wagslane.dev/posts/zen-of-proverbs/

20 rules of thumb for writing better software. Optimize for simplicity first Write code for humans, not computers Reading is more important than writing Any style is fine, as long as it’s black There should be one way to do it, but seriously this time Hide the sharp knives Changing the rules is be...

09/01/2023

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