Published in CodeX·Mar 29, 2022Monorails and PyramidsA development team I worked with had a long-running joke that engineers love to develop monorails. In the software world, a monorail is an over-engineered piece of code that provides little value to the customer but was really fun and interesting to write. This term came about some late Friday…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Mar 15, 2022The Law of the Third BestOne of my long-time mentors, along with his vast knowledge of all things software, also shared tidbits of wisdom that I am constantly reminded of in my day-to-day activities as an engineer. One such of these tidbits is what I’ll call the law of the third best. …Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Mar 3, 2022The Hardest thing about Engineering is RequirementsOne of the hardest things about being a software architect is gathering requirements. You can work with the greatest team of rockstar engineers on the planet and build the most amazing piece of tech ever seen. So great that you could trick most people who see it into believing it…Software Engineering7 min readSoftware Engineering7 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Feb 4, 2022Your Software Has An Architecture You Just Don’t Know it YetThe Symptoms There we are standing in front of the whiteboard at 5:00 on Friday afternoon. Myself, the development manager, and a couple of gifted software engineers are staring at the multicolor boxes and lines scribbled on the board. A feeling of defeat flows through the group's psyche. Yet again, while trying…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Jan 18, 2022Boilerplate Software ArchitectureIn this post, I’m going to explore my goto architectural structure. I consider this a template to follow to help me get started with architecting a solution to a complex problem. Much like a document template in Microsoft word doesn’t contain much of the content to write the next great…Software Development8 min readSoftware Development8 min read
Jan 12, 2022The Naive View of a RookieHow an aspiring software architect views architecture — I first published this way back in 2014 on a WordPress blog I started to write before life happened. Reproducing it here because I think it is an interesting discussion and I want to ponder how my views have changed over the last 10-ish years. Introduction I am about to spend…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Jan 11, 2022The Doctrine of an Aspiring Software ArchitectBlueprints for Bytes — What is This? This fellow developer is a blog discussing software architecture among other things. It is likely you stumbled across this accidentally while trying to answer some seemingly easy questions like what goes in an architecture document, what is SOA, DDD, or OO, or perhaps what is the advantage to using an…Software Architecture3 min readSoftware Architecture3 min read
