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Brandon Bryson

Intellectual Control, Developer Abstraction, and Testing

Earlier this year I attended the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in NY. One of the keynotes was presented by George Fairbanks on…

4 min readApr 27, 2020

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Intellectual Control, Developer Abstraction, and Testing

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Brandon Bryson

Assessing Legacy Code Using Chesterton’s Fence

I recently read a great article on second-order thinking that really resonated with me with regard to software development, specifically…

3 min readApr 13, 2020

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Assessing Legacy Code Using Chesterton’s Fence

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Brandon Bryson

Improving with Retrospectives

I was looking through some old notes and found this great quote that I had captured from an InfoQ presentation on agile mindset by Shane…

3 min readApr 2, 2018

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Brandon Bryson

Integration Tests — Broad or Narrow?

Martin Fowler recently released a new blog describing the concept of Integration Tests and how the term is used in different ways. It is a…

3 min readJan 29, 2018

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Integration Tests — Broad or Narrow?

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Brandon Bryson

Meetings are Not Agile Collaboration

I started this topic thinking about all the time technologists spend in meetings and how they impact agile delivery. I’ve come to believe…

8 min readNov 6, 2017

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Brandon Bryson

Remove Dead Code

I enjoyed this article on the importance of removing dead code as part of managing technical debt. In the article, which is an interview…

2 min readOct 16, 2017

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Remove Dead Code

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Brandon Bryson

Architectural Simplicity Through Options

I’ve written lately about driving architectural simplicity. One driver of simplicity that I covered in the article was understanding…

2 min readOct 2, 2017

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Architectural Simplicity Through Options

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Brandon Bryson

Code Review as Mutual Learning

Dan North had a great tweet the other day regarding opportunity to learn from code reviews:

1 min readSep 18, 2017

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Brandon Bryson

Driving Architectural Simplicity

I just posted a new article on InfoQ:

1 min readAug 20, 2017

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Brandon Bryson

Technical Debt is like a messy kitchen

I saw a great metaphor for technical debt the other day in a presentation on agile architecture. The speaker likened technical debt to a…

4 min readAug 13, 2017

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Brandon Bryson

Brandon Bryson

Software engineer, tech lead, architect blogging about my thoughts and experience with software development, design, architecture, agile, and security.

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