Technical Debt
What is not tech debt
Recently we updated our definition of tech debt tech debt. As a follow on to that article, this post goes into areas that are not tech debt, but often confused…
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Technical Debt
What is Tech Debt and How to Think About It
Technical debt is a frequent topic we cover with clients. Technology products are never ‘done'. The art of keeping a platform optimized for product outcomes is…
Technical Diligence
How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence
How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence
SaaS
Whole Product Concept for SaaS
What makes products successful? There are many aspects that contribute to the success of a product over time. We can trace back research to several prominent…
Leadership
Leadership Anti-Patterns
The world of software development is all abuzz with the notion of patterns and anti-patterns. Patterns are something we endeavor to follow and propagate as a…
Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3
This is the final post in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles of team…
Architecture
A Microservices Saga Choreography Example
In a recent blog post we wrote about the Saga Pattern. Saga attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services…
Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2
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Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash
Architecture
Microservices Saga Pattern
Saga Overview The saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is…
Architecture
Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload
The Claim-Check approach is an architectural pattern for creating additional capacity for a message bus by persisting the entire payload into an external…
Architecture
Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern
Event Sourcing Overview