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Systems Thinking Complicates Things

I’ve had the honor and pleasure of appearing as a regular on Tom Cagley‘s SPaMCast podcast for almost three years now. Before I write one…

Aug 14, 2017

Systems Thinking Complicates Things

Aug 14, 2017

Gene Hughson

Microservices or Monoliths — Fences and Neighbors

At the end of my last post, “What Makes a Monolith Monolithic?”, I stated that I didn’t consider the term “monolithic” to be inherently…

Aug 2, 2017

Microservices or Monoliths — Fences and Neighbors

Aug 2, 2017

Gene Hughson

What Makes a Monolith Monolithic?

It seems like everybody throws around the term “monolith”, but what do we mean by that?

Jul 26, 2017

What Makes a Monolith Monolithic?

Jul 26, 2017

Gene Hughson

Organizations as Systems — Kurosawa, Clausewitz, and Chess

In order to respond appropriately to the context we find ourselves in, it’s helpful that we be able to correctly define that context. It’s…

Jul 19, 2017

Jul 19, 2017

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Management, Simple and Wrong — Semantics, Systems, and Self-Correction

Simple responses to complex situations are both seductive and dangerous. The difficulty in juggling lots of variables tempts us to employ…

Jul 14, 2017

Management, Simple and Wrong — Semantics, Systems, and Self-Correction

Jul 14, 2017

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Holistic Architecture — Keeping the Gears Turning

In last week’s post, “Trash or Treasure — What’s Your Legacy?”, I talked about how to define “legacy systems”. Essentially, as the…

Jun 14, 2017

Jun 14, 2017

Gene Hughson

Trash or Treasure — What’s Your Legacy?

The topic of legacy systems is something of a contentious one. In most cases, a legacy is understood to be a good thing. What makes a…

Jun 9, 2017

Trash or Treasure — What’s Your Legacy?

Jun 9, 2017

Gene Hughson

Innovation, Intention, Planning and Execution

Convergence is an interesting thing. Greger Wiktrand and I have been trading posts back and forth on the subject of innovation for almost…

May 30, 2017

Innovation, Intention, Planning and Execution

May 30, 2017

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This is not a project

My apologies to René Magritte, as I appropriate his point, if not his iconic painting.

May 5, 2017

This is not a project

May 5, 2017

Gene Hughson

Innovation in Inner Space

Long-time readers know that I have a rather varied set of interests and that I’ve got a “thing” for history, particularly military history…

May 1, 2017

Innovation in Inner Space

May 1, 2017

Gene Hughson

Gene Hughson

Christian, husband, father, amateur historian, lover of classic rock...not to mention solution architect, developer, process wonk and tech blogger

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