Christopher Alexander, the architect who wrote the ORIGINAL original patterns book, contributed a forward to Patterns in Software. He reports that in the years since Patterns in Architecture “We have begun to make buildings which really do have the quality I sought for all those year… This has come about in large part because, since …
Notes from Craft Conference 2015, Budapest. Craft conference was all about microservices this year.[1] Yet, it was about so much more at the same time — even when it was talking about microservices. lobby of the venue. Very cool, and always packed Dan and I went on about microservices in our opening keynote,[2] about how it’s not …
Studying biology or economics, one finds organisms, ecosystems, and economies that are more than the sum of their parts. Somehow many interacting agents with limited information produce increasing organization, creating amazing complexity out of relatively simple components. In computing, if we want to harvest this potential for surprise, see results this interesting, we have to …
We need to invent a word: ?: (n) The goal that you aim for, not because you expect to hit it, but because aiming for it points you in the right direction. Julian Browne in The Death of Architecture accepts that while an Enterprise Architecture will never be achieved, it can direct our efforts: “Great …