Reckoning with the force of Conway's Law
While putting together this year's Technology Radar, Conway's Law — the idea that organizations are constrained to produce systems that mirror their communication structures — was the subject of a lot...
3 Nov 202235min
Exploring the Basal Cost of software
The "Basal Cost" of software is an idea from Eduardo Ferro Aldama. The term is borrowed from biology, where the "Basal Metabolic Rate" refers to the number of calories a human body burns just to maint...
20 Okt 202230min
Why full-stack testing matters
Although many books have been written on software testing over the years, Gayathri Mohan's Full-Stack Testing, released earlier this year with O'Reilly, is unique: by taking a comprehensive look at ma...
5 Okt 202231min
Acknowledging and addressing technical debt in startups and scale-ups
Technical debt is a ubiquitous problem in software engineering, yet its causes — and the potential ways to address it — are often context-specific, dependent on the challenges and goals of an organiza...
22 Sep 202239min
