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Vital Statistics

How big does a website have to get before custom infrastructure becomes necessary? When a website reaches this stage, what infrastructure gets built? Before trying to answer these questions we must...

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Myopic

Point the average development team at a problem and in very little time: IDEs have been fired up and code is being cranked out The same well-worn non-process is being followed as before The testers and...

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Warp

A frequent problem I observe when reviewing system designs is they are built atop one or more libraries, frameworks or products that are poorly suited to the intended task. Fitting the design to these...

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Blueprints

For a long time, I’ve wanted to write something about the state of our software practices. It’s always proven quite challenging as I find myself unerringly drawn towards philosophy, creativity,...

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