Kimsia

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

Many systems are built as skeletal systems that can be extended using plug-ins, packages, or extensions. Examples include the R language, Visual Studio Code, and most web browsers.

Stop thinking of product-market fit as a yes or no question—but instead as a process of finding fit with more segments of the market.

Every architecture, no matter what it is, partitions possible changes into three categories: local, nonlocal, and architectural.

• A local change can be accomplished by modifying a single element—for example, adding a new business rule to a pricing logic module.


• A nonlocal change requires multiple element modifications but leaves the underlying archite

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once the architecture has been agreed upon, it becomes very costly—for managerial and business reasons—to significantly modify it. This is one argument (among many) for analyzing the software architecture for a large system before settling on a specific choice.

Architecture represents a common abstraction of a system that most, if not all, of the system’s stakeholders can use as a basis for creating mutual understanding, negotiating, forming consensus, and communicating with each other. The architecture—or at least parts of it—are sufficiently abstract that most nontechnical people can understand it to th... See more

Decisions at all stages of the life cycle—from architectural design to coding and implementation and testing—affect system quality. Therefore, quality is not completely a function of an architectural design. But that’s where it starts.