Udi Dahan has just fired off a great post about the pitfals of trying to reuse code – that we make big problems for ourselves by trying to re-use domain-specific code into ways it wasn’t designed to be used. Successful re-use comes about when the code being used is generic enough to actually work in [...]
Posts under ‘Software Design’
Test for good developers
I’ve definitely made some interviewing mistakes in my day. Once mistake which I hope too avoid in the future is hiring people who don’t think architecturally, as so eloquently described by Simon Brown over at Coding the Architecture.
I’ve recommended a couple of people who seemed quite competent when talking about their technical skills during the [...]
Another excellent point
How does one arrive at good design, whether it be the architecture for a huge system or the layout for a single interface? Nick Malik over at Microsoft sums it up very nicely:
Design is a process where you consider the problem and then propose multiple, competing, wildly creative solutions. You then narrow down your brainstorm [...]
Doing it right at Facebook
I came across this today, and was so pleased by the clarity of thought that I needed to share it. From Robert Johnson at Facebook, describing their monitoring protocol, Scribe:
The second major design decision was about reliability. We chose was a middle ground here, reliable enough that we can expect to get all of the [...]
Worth Reading – Testing Anti-patterns
Thanks to Frank Kelly for pointing out James Carr’s great list of testing anti-patterns – things to really avoid when writing automated test cases. This is definitely a page worth reading.
