Apr 28, 2022
We end this season with a look at using patterns and anti-patterns throughout your work. The value they provide is obvious and costs little. We gain the lessons learned from others and have those available for our projects. Those experiences are valuable to us and jumpstart our solutions.
Using Patterns
Patterns are...
Apr 26, 2022
The BHAG or Big Hairy Audacious Goals approach to vision or roadmaps is often recommended. The objective is to keep from limiting ourselves. The problem is that too much of a good thing can turn into a mental block or analysis paralysis. Too many options or too many tasks to complete is often overwhelming.
The Big...
Apr 21, 2022
One of the most powerful and useful patterns I have come across is one we will call rinse and repeat. It may also be seen as copy and paste or templates. However, the result is a way to rapidly generate a lot of similar solutions within an architecture or system.
The Rinse And Repeat Pattern Defined
The essential...
Apr 19, 2022
Our new patterns include the rosetta stone. This pattern provides a path to link disparate systems and their data formats. It comes from the historical rosetta stone which was a multilingual text used to decipher ancient languages. We use this as a sort of pathway to a common language for our application.
The Rosetta...
Apr 14, 2022
We continue on a series of new patterns and anti-patterns with "the worst that can happen." This pattern uses fear and hyperbole to help us tighten up a design. We imagine what can go wrong and use that as a guide for applying fixes, hooks, and exceptions. Thus, this pattern is more a process than a pattern per se....