Microservices from the Trenches – Talk
Microservices are a hype. It made programmers more aware of methods to modularise large monolithic systems, because of stricter component boundaries.
Evolutionary Design Talk – NewCrafts Paris 18 May 2018
Evolutionary Design Talk Evolutionary Design: The art of growing a system by observing its natural traits and then normalizing and optimizing its growth Evolutionary Design seems to be one of the black arts of software…
Architectural Kata – Budapest
Architectural Kata Budapest
Following the invitation of Zsolt Bodo I facilitated an Architectural Kata in the Budapest Agile community. The purpose of the session was to let the attendees speak about architecture and I was merely a facilitator. My other role was the customer, clarifying the requirements whenever the audience requested.
The concept remains the same as for the first Architectural Kata I facilitated: you cannot be a good architect if you do not have the experience. An architect creates 10-15 architectures during the whole career, so we need to practice to become better architects. This session is exactly a repetitive exercise of creating architectures for given, unclear, requirements.
Architectural Kata
Architectural Kata
I first got into contact with this notion at the SoCraTes conference in 2012 when Benjamin facilitated not one, but two sessions. Unfortunately then I could not have attended as I was too tired from the sessions I had facilitated.
Last year I met again Benjamin at the XP Germany conference. Then I really attended his session. You can read more about that here.
We (mostly my brother Alex) decided to bring this Architectural Kata to the Bucharest community. And last week we had the first one.
The main idea behind this concept is that you cannot be a good architect if you do not have the experience. If you are an architect you create maybe 10-15 systems in your life, so that is surely not enough to be a good one. So with this session we do a repetitive exercise of creating architectures for some requirements.
