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Form Follows Function
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Form Follows Function is a personal blog at genehughson.wordpress.com about programming, career and design. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 201 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
All Things Architectural
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The disconnect between traditional IT management and its clients ("the business") is, IMO, a huge source problems and costs for the organization. I've been riding that horse for a long time: https://genehughson.wordpress.com/tag/fixing-it/
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on “The Hidden Cost of Cheap – UX and Internal Applications”Submitted Cargo Cult Architecture as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Debt – What it is and what to do about it as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices – Sharpening the Focus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Microservice “Micro”? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservice Principles, Technical Debt, and Legacy Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices, SOA, Reuse and Replaceability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservice Principles and Enterprise IT Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Versioning Illustrated as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Debt – Why not just do the work better? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where does architecture end and design start? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skating to Where the Puck Will Be as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Barriers to Innovation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Technical Debt Like We Mean It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hidden Cost of Cheap – UX and Internal Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nest and Revolv – Smart Devices, Not So Smart Moves as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google’s Parent Company Is Stirring Up a Hornet’s Nest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enterprise Architecture and the Business of IT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Meaningful Manifesto for IT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Innovation on Tap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Business of IT – Customers, Clients, and Fit for Purpose as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is 2016 the Year for Customer-Focused IT? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All models may be wrong, but it’s not a contest to see how wrong you can be as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can you afford microservices? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Do No Harm – The Practice of Software Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Locking Down the Prisoners: Control, Conflict and Compliance for Organizations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Debt and Rolling Re-Writes (Who Needs Architects?) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices, Monoliths, and Conflicts to Resolve as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted #NoEstimates – Questions, Answers, and Credibility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Planning and Designing – Intentional, Accidental, Emergent as a story · 2 points
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