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Category Archives: Software Architecture
Adaptable Designs for Agile Software Evolution
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is considered a very bad … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Design Patterns, Software Architecture, Software Evolution
Tagged Agile, Architecture, Design Patterns, Evolution
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IASA IL meeting with Prof. Rick Kazman
The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel organized a special event with the participation of Prof. Rick Kazman, who talked about ”The Metropolis Model for Software Development”. Dr. Rick Kazman is a Professor at the University of Hawaii … Continue reading
On Information Hiding and Encapsulation
This month I participated in IBM Haifa’s Programming Languages and Software Engineering (PLSE) Seminar. There I had the opportunity to have lunch with David Parnas, one of the world pioneers in the field of Software Engineering. Parnas is the father … Continue reading
The Psychology of Reviews: Distinction Bias, Evaluability Hypothesis and the Framing Effect
Design Reviews are one of the most important activities in the software development process. If a bad design is approved and implemented, it is very expensive to correct that afterwards. Therefore, we want to have high confidence in our decisions … Continue reading
Posted in Efficacy, Psychology of Programming, Software Architecture
Tagged Architecture, Efficacy, Psychology
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Yahoo! Cocktails: When the client is in the cloud
One of the reasons I’m proud to work at Yahoo! is that we have some very nice products that reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Another reason is that Yahoo! is behind the development of several advanced technologies and … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Software Architecture, Web Development, Yahoo!
Tagged Architecture, Cloud, Web, Yahoo!
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The Agile Architect
The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel was honored to host a talk by Johanna Rothman last week (June/21/2011). Johanna Rothman is a consultant, author and speaker with vast experience with project management. She was visiting Israel and … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, Architecture, IASA
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Effective Design Reviews
This is the definition of Design Review from Wikipedia: “A design review is a process whereby a design is tested against its requirements prior to implementation.“ There are at least two problems with this definition: The first problem is that … Continue reading
