#software-architecture

Articles tagged with #software-architecture

The Technical Candy Problem in Software Development
Goodhart's Law, software architecture, and the questions it lets teams stop asking
Aug 29, 202616 min read5
Tooling Is the Icing on the Cake, Not the Cake Itself
There's a recurring message on LinkedIn: Java 8 is legacy. Java 21 is enterprise-ready. Upgrade, or fall behind. Ask the same people directly whether a better language makes for a better product, and
Aug 20, 202611 min read4
How Do You Tell Your Software Application Is of High Quality? Part 2
Part 2 — Essential and Accidental Complexity Part 1's answer to that question was 'you can't' — and that still stands. No controlled counterfactual exists, and it isn't coming. What's fixable is narro
Aug 13, 202617 min read5
How Do You Tell Your Software Application Is of High Quality?
Part 1 — Problem Definition You can't. Not with any test you currently run. Every test in a standard suite answers one question: does the software do what it's supposed to do. None of them answer a se
Aug 10, 202615 min read8
Discovery and Fit Testing: The Two Jobs of a Domain Model
Every experienced architect has had this happen. A domain expert asks for feature X. An hour of conversation later, it turns out they don't actually need X at all — they need something X happened to b
Jul 21, 202611 min read8
Why Expensive Software Development Never Looks Expensive
Every organisation that has run a significant software system for more than a few years has felt a version of the same thing: a change that should have taken days takes months, nobody can quite explai
Jul 16, 202614 min read6