software architecture
Once an architecture has been defined, it can serve as the basis for incremental development. The first increment can be a skeletal system in which at least some of the infrastructure—how the elements initialize, communicate, share data, access resources, report errors, log activity, and so forth—is present, but much of the system’s application... See more
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
enabling incremental development
- If your system requires high performance, then you need to pay attention to managing the time-based behavior of elements, their use of shared resources, and the frequency and volume of their interelement communication.
- If modifiability is important, then you need to pay attention to assigning responsibilities to elements and limiting the
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
This point follows from the previous two: Architecture not only imbues systems with qualities, but does so in a predictable way.
Rick Kazman • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
the two earlier points are: 1) a system ability to meet desired or required quality attributes is mostly determined by its architecture 2) the ease of makcing chnages (modifiability) is a quality attrbute
Programming Pearls
The text compiles programming advice and principles, offering memorable rules and insights from various experts in software development, coding, debugging, performance optimization, user interfaces, and documentation.
moss.cs.iit.eduOrg debt is just as dangerous as tech debt but is talked about much less
Org debt builds up every time a company operates without discipline:
- Inconsistent principles for promotions and comp
- Hiring without a clear scope for the new... See more
Dan Hockenmaiersubstack.comOrg debt is just as dangerous as tech debt but is talked about much less
Org debt builds up every time a company operates without discipline:
- Inconsistent principles for promotions and comp
- Hiring without a clear scope for the new role
- Trying new operating models but not sticking to them
- Allowing meeting creep
In the short term, it's always easier to just let this stuff happen. But in the long term, org debt will destroy a company. Execution will slow down, people will get frustrated, and the best ones will leave.
If you're considering joining a company, assess org discipline in the same way you'd assess their metrics and team.
When production code is important, then it is a minority: most project code is scaffolding. Tests, deployments, linting, verification, utilities for local development, handy admin interfaces–scaffolding is code that helps us safely and efficiently change production code.
Augmented Coding: an Experience Report
If you want your implementation to conform to an architecture, then it must conform to the design decisions prescribed by the architecture. It must have the set of elements prescribed by the architecture, these elements must interact with each other in the fashion prescribed by the architecture, and each element must fulfill its responsibility to... See more
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
architecture should prescibe constraints on implementation
The software development community is coming to grips with the fact that roughly 80 percent of a typical software system’s total cost occurs after initial deployment. Most systems that people work on are in this phase. Many programmers and software designers never get to work on new development—they work under the constraints of the existing... See more