What does it mean to support, extend or even replace a monolith and should we even try? I explore the landscape as it is now… Read More »Emergent Architecture and Beating the Monolith

One of the core concepts of Domain Driven Design (Eric Evans) is the Bounded Context. Here’s an excellent summary of the Bounded Context in DDD… Read More »Defining the Bounded Context is the Key to Flow

Did you ever think that test-driven development (TDD) couldn’t be for you because you’re a developer and you want to write code? Me too. After… Read More »Test-Driven Development as a Design Tool

In the recent MapCamp, I had the pleasure of hearing a talk by Susanne Kaiser about the ‘sweet spot’ of modern thinking when it comes… Read More »Architecture for Flow by Susanne Keiser

The amount of existing investment made in a software product often puts us off from continuing to support it. Instead, encouraged by a new generation… Read More »The Sunk Cost Fallacy, Fallacy

Sometimes you don’t realise you’re in an engineering hole, ever. You keep on applying the next fix – be it code, be it a system,… Read More »Sticking Plasters on Sticking Plasters