Matt Heusser and I were discussing his upcoming Workshop on Technical Debt, at which I hope to be speaking in August, and we came up with several interesting ways that technical debt is created.
Hacks create technical debt by ignoring principles of good software development in favor of quick, easy fixes
This is the obvious one because [...]
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Where Does Technical Debt Come From?
May 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Architecture · Information Technology Trends · Project Management
Testing an SOA
February 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Mike Kelly and I recently did a webinar on testing service oriented architectures. If you’re interested in this topic, you can access it through this link.
One of the funnest parts of doing this webinar was producing the artwork for the slides. For reasons I explain in the presentation, I wanted three photographs of spaghetti: [...]
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The $100,000,000 Canonical Model
September 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Once upon a time (1999) a bright guy had a bright idea. “If we expose our back office capabilities as services,” he said, “the business will be able to use them to deploy new capabilities quickly in ways we can’t imagine today.” People listened, and before long this bright guy (not me) had a small [...]
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