“Despite being roughly twice as many characters, it requires a fraction of the mental effort when you read it”
Source: The Programmer's Brain
“Even if the ecosystem doesn’t change, what about the gradual erosion of architectural characteristics that occurs? Architects design architectures, but then expose them to the messy real world of implementing things atop the architecture. How can architects protect the important parts they have defined?”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“All too often architects make a decision that is the correct decision at the time but becomes a bad decision over time because of changing conditions like dynamic equilibrium. For example, architects design a system as a desktop application, yet the industry herds them toward a web application as users’ habits change. The original decision wasn’t incorrect, but the ecosystem shifted in unexpected ways.”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“For any dimension in our architecture that requires protection from the side effects of evolution, we create fitness functions. A common practice in microservices architectures is the use of consumer-driven contracts, which are atomic integration architecture fitness functions.”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“The other new role that evolutionary architecture creates has enterprise architects defining enterprise-wide fitness functions. Enterprise architects are typically responsible for enterprise-wide nonfunctional requirements, such as scalability and security. Many organizations lack the ability to automatically assess how well projects perform individually and in aggregate for these characteristics. Once projects adopt fitness functions to protect parts of their architecture, enterprise architects can utilize the same mechanism to verify that enterprise-wide characteristics remain intact.”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“Metrics are a common adjunct to the deployment pipeline in incremental change environments. If teams use this effort as a proof-of-concept, developers should gather appropriate metrics for both before and after scenarios. Gathering concrete data is the best way to for developers to vet the approach; remember the adage that demonstration defeats discussion.”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“A retrospective’s huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“Retrospectives can make your organization faster, more efficient and innovative.”
Source: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made for his lungs, but he has lungs because there is air; the light was not created for his eye, but he has eyes because there is light. All the forces of nature are going their own way; man avails himself of them, or catches a ride as best he can. If he keeps his seat, he prospers; if he misses his hold and falls, he is crushed.”
Source: The Light of Day (Volume 11); Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View
“Self-doubt is a persuasive mistress; careful not to shag her or you’ll never get your balls back.” - Simon Hunt”
Source: Twist