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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver.

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Managing Energy, Prioritizing Health: The Tasktop Recharge Days Initiative

Tasktop

In addition to a generous fitness allowance program , the company is also working with a third party to provide teams with online mental health classes and workshops. Senior Systems Administrator, Michelle Santos, embraced a different type of cloud at Golden Ears Provincial Park in BC. How did Tasktopians Recharge?

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” She works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. Rick Byers.

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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.

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Uncovering Hidden Business Rules with DDD Aggregates

Strategic Tech

If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Transactional & Invariant Business Rules To enforce business rules in software systems, transactional boundaries need to be identified: which business rules must succeed or fail together.

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Tackling the Pipeline Problem in the Architecture Research Community

ACM Sigarch

However, we often hear anecdotes that the number of prospective graduate students applying to computer architecture/systems is small and shrinking. Undergraduate Outreach and the uArch Workshop. To address some of the issues mentioned above, we are organizing the first Undergrad Architect Workshop (uArch) at ISCA ‘19.