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Software development teams can improve all they like, but if the time from customer need identified to need met hasn’t changed because of bottlenecks in the flow, any local optimization of agility in IT will make little or no difference in the end-to-end time to value.
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
Armin Popp
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Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It is a popular open source tool widely used in industry and is known for its distributed nature, speed, scalability, and simple REST APIs.
The Search Infrastructure team builds infrastructure to host search as a service. Since we are such a central infrastructur... See more
Stability and scalability for search
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
amazon.com
A corollary of Conway’s Law is that an organization’s structures themselves can be constrained by the architectures that they designed many years earlier. And without intentional action, it’s a Catch-22. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them,” Einstein said. An example of this antipattern is a mi
... See moreJonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
The API of a composite object should not be more complicated than that of any of its components.
Nat Pryce • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck))
Globally scoped data is fundamentally in conflict with the object-oriented philosophy of endowing objects with abilities and then getting things done by sending requests to those objects. Some Ruby programmers work for years and never use a single global variable (except perhaps a few of the built-in ones).