Communication Patterns: APIs
As complexity increases, more software parts act as a source of information — with layers that govern communication.
Communication Patterns: Integration
Exploring patterns for forming new relationships between decoupled parts.
Communication Patterns: Decoupling
Exploring how to draw boundaries around software parts. How do you figure out what to decouple from what?
Communication Patterns: Intro
As we move from software to systems of software, time and relationship is where complexity increases at breakneck speed.
Books for Systems Thinkers
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Writing as Thinking (and Learning and Leading)
Writing practices help us think and learn and lead. Writing hones essential skills for knowledge workers.
Collaborative Modeling
Deep schisms in a system’s functional architecture appear when people can’t create shared understanding. Collaborative modeling helps.
Microservices
Moving from monolith to microservices is an incremental decoupling of capabilities. And a mindshift from code thinking to designing well-architected relationships.
DevOps
DevOps is a restructuring of the way an organization thinks, behaves and cross-functionally delivers software.
Metacognition & Self Awareness
If you want to change what you deploy, you first need to change how you think. You can not change your thinking if you aren’t aware of your thinking.