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Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
In the real world, the systems we build are part of complex adaptive systems that encompass developers, users, and customers, as well as their environments and organizational contexts. This reality calls for a more dynamic, almost organic approach to architecture and design, one that allows you to learn as you go and adapt your software to ever-cha
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A Word of Caution
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
It's up to the architect to foresee these outcomes and decide whether they are comfortable with them. Does it matter where this lands, or does it make sense to constrain the available choices in some way? Will this make life easier in the long term and help you to manage costs, or will it merely undermine agility without delivxering any tangible be... See more
How to make architecture decisions
Some quick exercises to counter these tendencies:
- Pay close attention to when your pattern-sensing radar goes off and you start congratulating yourself for seeing something you've seen before. Why? This is often a signal that you might be overgeneralizing.
- Write down where you've worked and for how long, compare those contexts, and ask yourself, "Whe
TBM 329: Deep vs. Broad Context Traps
In fact the BYOC model has some tension and perverse incentives. Most of their billing models are priced as the number of nodes under management. Their way to increase revenue is to add more nodes to your cluster! An optimization that shrinks node count will drop revenue. The SaaS provider has the opposite incentive - it optimizes its stack at ever... See more