Search Results: architecture
the blind side of seniority
…we integrated with were not particularly mature in their architectures (think blank stares when you mention webhook retry, and only allowing one webhook URL per event type), and you have a real case… [more]
The Hunt Begins
…being technical enough to contribute both in code and architecture. I have consulted with companies to identify architectural bottle necks, to troubleshoot performance issues, and to build websites… [more]
Why weird team names make sense
…of fast moving organizations and rapidly shifting architectures. For example, if you name a team "The Payments Team", you need to be confident that, 1) they will always own the payment… [more]
Encourage teams to take risks
…risk. The checkpoints and conversations help them learn architecture by doing it, and allow the team at large to help them grow. There are many ways that we can provide support. From process, to… [more]
2020: A year
…it has strong application to on-call, and systems architecture. The most important idea for me was that rescue should come as a suprise to our daily routine in survival situations. This has been a… [more]
Tech Things I read in 2018
…Read it. Read it now. Guidelines for Adopting Frontend Architectures and Patterns in Microservices-Based Systems by Holger Harms, Collin Rogowski, and Luigi Lo Iacono An excellent paper outlining how… [more]
Making the world more beautiful
…the environment that surrounds us. I’d love to say architecture, the thing that defines our environments, but good architecture is inaccessible to the majority people. But if we can shape the… [more]
monument
…on monument it grew out of the idea of using a pub/sub architecture to break up coupling in apps. Its internal architecture is the application of evented microservice architecture to the application… [more]
Seeing and Speaking
…talking about it I remembered the term "sight line" from architecture school and that became my go to explanation for why a shelf should be in a certain place and not another. We understood what I… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
TLDR: Create small shared granular components for everything, and a "view" is just an ordered collection of components. Warning: this is rambly and mostly a brain dump. Read on... Components. They are… [more]
Modules not Globals
…are lots of things we could talk about with componentized architecture. But there is a single thing that should be a massive flashing sign that you need a module. That thing is global variables.… [more]
Approaching CSS the OO Way
…In fact the ideas of atomization and normalization from DB architecture are excellent parallels to how we should be approaching authoring CSS. Before we look at how SOLID applies to CSS let’s… [more]
There is a Right Way
…them, slapping down pretty comps, and theoretical architectures. My dad had carefully researched mancala, selected the base materials, (oak in this case), the correct bit for the router, finishing… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…which is going to require scalability, and a layered architecture that I just couldn't reasonably build in a physical environment. So I started toying with Amazon Web Services and realized that there… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…which is going to require scalability, and a layered architecture that I just couldn't reasonably build in a physical environment. So I started toying with Amazon Web Services and realized that there… [more]