A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
In 2016 pretty much every commercial software system built with modern tech is a distributed system. Yes, we all build distributed systems these days. Obviously, the term "distributed" is very spacious - I'm not saying we're all creating stuff like eventually consisted, sharded data...
It's a real grind, what we do here In real life, software delivery rarely is a piece of cake - writing actual, production code doesn't resemble "happy path" tutorials, industrial domain models are much more complex than "Animal -> Dog" hierarchy,...
Some time ago I had an interesting discussion with one of my colleagues regarding what is the typical thing that goes wrong when software delivery project turns out to be unsuccessful. Many of the reasons we've identified were not really revealing: * new, unknown, bleeding edge, unproven technology -...
Have you heard about groupthink [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink] before? If you didn't, this blog post is for you - better to know such vicious enemy before you actually encounter him ... The most clear (& still concise) definition I've found goes like that: >...
New .NET is around a corner. Tomorrow (2016.06.27) we'll put our hands on freshly baked .NET Core 1.0 & ASP.NET Core 1.0. What can (should) we expect of this new version? How will tomorrow (& days after) differ from what we already know?...
Many people claim that recent hype trains (especially the most recent one - Serverless [http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html]) are not about actual novelties but more about re-visiting old patterns / practices & giving them new names (to make it feel like something new, maybe to claim the glory of...
