Martin Fowler

JUNE 14, 2022

Many software teams describe desired product capabilities as a product backlog: a list of user stories. These stories capture who needs the work, what the work is, and why it's needed.

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Software Development 233

Martin Fowler

MARCH 9, 2022

Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard finish their examination of the tech debt bottleneck by looking at how to get out of it. This includes close collaboration betwen product and engineering, a strategy for the four phases of a startup's journey, and empowering teams to fix the tech debt problems. more….

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How To Engineering Strategy 260

Martin Fowler

MARCH 8, 2022

In its early days, a startup searches for a good product-market fit. When it finds one it looks to grow rapidly, a phase known as a scaleup. At this time it's growing rapidly along many dimensions: revenues, customer, headcount.

Marketing 252

Marketing Company How To 252

Martin Fowler

JULY 7, 2022

Legacy systems often act as integration hubs, ingesting source data to pass on to downstream systems. A new downstream system can decouple itself from legacy by finding the source of data to the legacy and integrating directly to that instead.

System 180

System Data 180

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Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Like many modern software architects, Andrew Harmel-Law struggles with the need to scale architectural thinking to larger organizations while allowing teams to be as autonomous as possible.

Architecture 277

Architecture Software Organization 277

Martin Fowler

JANUARY 18, 2022

Continuing his exploration of important patterns to maintain consistency across a cluster, Unmesh Joshi now looks at Two Phase Commit. It's broadly the most familiar approach, but comes with lots of complexities to make it work in practice over unreliable networks.

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Network 256

Martin Fowler

MARCH 28, 2022

The core to a successful legacy displacement is the gradual replacement of legacy with new software, as this allows benefits to delivered early and circumvents the risks of a Big Bang.

Architecture 219

Architecture System Software How To 219

Martin Fowler

MARCH 10, 2022

The second bottleneck in the series looks at talent, and how scaleups struggle to hire enough good people.

Network 225

Network 225

Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Good technical design decisions are very dependent on context. Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly.

Architecture 257

Architecture Technology 257

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Martin Fowler

JULY 29, 2021

To illustrate how these patterns work in practice, Ian, Rob, and James describe an example of how one of our teams used a number of Legacy Modernization Patterns to successfully replace integration middleware critical to the operation of their client's business as part of a larger legacy modernization programme.

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Examples 283

Martin Fowler

JANUARY 5, 2022

Unmesh Joshi is ready to start the New Year with a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems. With this one he attempts the tricky task of explaining Paxos.

Network 238

Network System Development 238

Martin Fowler

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I've written a fair bit about how using pull requests can encourage a low integration frequency, reducing cycle time and discouraging refactoring.

Strategy 269

Strategy How To 269

Martin Fowler

JULY 20, 2021

My colleagues do a lot of work that involves replacing legacy software systems. Three of my colleagues - Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis - have started to capture their experience and advice for this is a collection of patterns.

System 280

System Software 280

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Many commercial integration tools market their ability to own the integration landscape and call out to general purpose languages as needed.

Architecture 239

Architecture Marketing Tools 239

Martin Fowler

JUNE 2, 2021

There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.

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Testing 285

Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Integrating the necessary security controls and audit capabilities to satisfy compliance requirements within a DevOps culture can capitalize on CI/CD pipeline automation, but presents unique challenges as an organization scales.

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Compliance Culture DevOps Scalability 245

Martin Fowler

JULY 19, 2022

When I'm writing, or mentoring others in writing, about a particular technique I prefer to take the role of an educator rather than that of an advocate. When doing that, I see two main stances an author can take. One is to focus on the trade-offs between this technique and its alternatives, the other is to focus on the merits of the particular technique and not discuss the alternatives.

Education 136

Education 136

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd. continue their advice on building infrastructure platforms by discussing techniques to discover what platform users need and stress the importance of finding the Shortest Path to Value by onboarding them quickly. more…. skip-home-page

Infrastructure 213

Infrastructure 213

Martin Fowler

APRIL 27, 2022

Code rots. That’s what everyone says: entropy is inevitable, and chaos eventually turns your beautifully imagined, well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. It’s true. if you don’t refactor.

Agile 183

Agile Guidelines Development Software Development 183

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records , which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process. more…. skip-home-page

Tools 229

Tools 229

Martin Fowler

MARCH 16, 2022

Tim Cochran and Roni Smith complete their article by looking at how scaleups need to invest in the hiring process to overcome the talent bottleneck. They add a case study from our experiences with talent acquisition at Thoughtworks. more…. skip-home-page

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Case Study Study 198

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Martin Fowler

AUGUST 10, 2021

We often need to access APIs from foreign codebases, and these foreign codebases usually have different vocabularies to ours. I've found it useful to encapsulate this interaction with a gateway that translates between our code and foreign code.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 15, 2022

Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explore how scaleups can get out of the hiring bottleneck by using technology and innovation as a hiring differentiator, hiring T-shaped and non-senior developers, and embracing remote working. more…. skip-home-page

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Innovation How To Technology Development 193

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Having architectural principles is not new, but in a world of highly-autonomous-teams they become essential because they are the means by which an aligned delivery direction is achieved without the need for control.

Architecture 218

Architecture 218

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech debt. They are the reason that things just take longer now than they used to. more….

Energy 219

Energy 219

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Thus far, Brandon has has explained why general purpose languages are better for integration. In this latest installment he explains that there are cases when commercial integration tools make sense. more…. skip-home-page

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Tools 216

Martin Fowler

JANUARY 19, 2021

Clients are interested in changes to the specific values on the server. It's difficult for clients to structure their logic if they need to poll the server continuously to look for changes. If clients open too many connections to the server for watching changes, it can overwhelm the server. more….

System 284

System 284

Martin Fowler

JANUARY 5, 2021

My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs.

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Development Software Engineering Engineering Organization 285

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Andrew finishes his article on how to scale software architecture by looking at how this technique works in practice , and also outlines how things can go wrong. more…. skip-home-page

Architecture 212

Architecture Software How To 212

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Martin Fowler

APRIL 27, 2021

Recently there's been a lot of interest, indeed hype, around building developer productivity platforms. Done well, they make it easier for developers to build systems aligned with the technology strategy and allow them to build useful features more quickly.

Strategy 263

Strategy System Software Development 263

Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a serious responsibility on our profession. Whether asked to or not, we have a duty to ensure our systems don’t degrade our society.

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Software Technology Development Examples 228

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Andrew's fourth supporting element for the Advice Process is using a tech radar to capture and map out your local version of the technology trends you see across your organization. more…. skip-home-page

Tools 211

Tools Trends Technology Organization 211

Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Brandon finishes his article on how we should look at integration by arguing that it is a strategic element of an enterprise's infrastructure.

Infrastructure 209

Infrastructure Enterprise System 209

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