The Distributed World built by DevOps – #GOTOAMS 2018

Distributed computing is the challenge of today. At the GOTO Amsterdam 2018 conference there was quite some talk about it. But also the practices needed to build and operate these…

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User’s stories – DDDEU 2018 bites

(NOTE: The following blog post contains some takeaways of the material that Avraham Poupko (twitter) presented at the Domain Driven Design Europe 2018 conference.) Story telling is as old as…

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On solving problems

As developers, our job is finding solutions to problems. Finding a good solution to a problem that has not yet been solved will give the business a tremendous advantage over its…

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Event Storming – Let the domain knowledge flow

Last year I was introduced to a new (for me) workshop format, called 'Event Storming'. It is a technique developed by Alberto Brandolini and is meant to quickly explore complex…

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“Lean Enterprise” – about lean and high performance organizations

Like most of you, I invest quite some time reading about agile software development practices and how to create innovative solutions with a short time to market. My experience, although…

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“The Software Craftsman” – a book about passion

"Being a software developer is awesome. Look around you. Almost everything that is man-made today has software behind it." This is a quote from the book 'The Software Craftsman: Professionalism,…

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