Evolving Software: SOLID principles as a continuum
Understand how SOLID principles work all at once to support each other, and their role as evolutionary guardrails for software systems.
Building robust distributed systems
Distributed systems give us tremendous scalability, but we need to build them right to reap the full benefits of this complicated architecture
On building scalable systems
A deep dive into software scalability, strategies for building a scalable system, and adopting distributed system design as the key to scalability
Mini Essay #4 - The other side
Much of what we do at work can be seen from two sides. To really learn how to do your job, find a way to get to the other side.
Mini Essay #3 - Say "no"
Hope is not a strategy. The only way to do effective short term planning is to say "no" brutally.