Low-code/no-code platforms: The 10% trap and the limits of abstractions
Low-code and no-code development platforms have been heralded in recent years as a solution to engineering talent gaps and as a trend that will properly democratize technology, allowing even non-coder...
1 Dec 202230min
Welcome to the fediverse: Exploring Mastodon, ActivityPub and beyond [Special]
For many who have been part of the recent migration of users from Twitter to Mastodon, their first encounters with the "fediverse" have been puzzling, even disorienting. Given a decade in which we've ...
24 Nov 202244min
Rethinking software governance: Reflecting on the second edition of Building Evolutionary Architectures
Building Evolutionary Architectures was published in 2017. In it, Thoughtworks CTO Rebecca Parsons, Neal Ford and Pat Kua defined and developed the concept of "evolutionary architecture" and demonstra...
17 Nov 202238min
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
