Posted on January 18, 2019
– Defining a common language for discussing code quality I recently started a new task as Tech Lead for a company that wanted to improve the quality of the code produced by their inhouse team. That immediately posed the question: What is good quality? The question is hard to answer without having a common language… Continue Reading What is good code?
Posted on May 9, 2018
It’s been a while since I did my last post. A lot of stuff has been going on – change of year, change of job, change of role. I now have the role of “Integration Architect” – and my contract says “Enterprise Architect”. In a world with no official titles, these things can be quite… Continue Reading Is Software engineering actually a thing?
Posted on January 28, 2016
I have previously blogged about Onion Architecture, in relation to mobile application development, but is it also applicable to the architecture stack of your organisation? I guess it is! Beware! I will be boxing architects, knowing that in the real world, they might a little more flexible than I try to make them. But very often, they are… Continue Reading The layered architecture of architects vs. the onion
Posted on January 14, 2016
We constantly hear that new applications should use the latest and greatest application architecture… A few years ago everybody was implementing SOA and Onion Architecture, now its CQRS, Micro Services etc. But how do we make a conscious decision on which architecture to choose? The answer is Non-Functional requirements? What is Non-Functional requirements? The Non-Functional… Continue Reading Non-Functional Requirements – The basis of your software architecture
Posted on November 4, 2015
I recently participated in a meeting with a development team responsible for a certain part of a solution. The team was responsible for implementing an integration solution between two systems – one system responsible for our business logic and another system responsible for creating customer print. As the application architect, I have the responsibility for… Continue Reading It’s not in our scope…. It’s the other team!