Team Topologies is an increasingly popular topic in organisations looking to improve delivery speed. It is fascinating; It has that perfect combination of ideas to hook me, both practically in my daily life and well backed up by scientific research I can dive into. When I find something interesting, I…

Little ‘a’ agile with XP flavour — Today I will share the secret sauce of how we deliver and why it works — a blow by blow example of the current thinking we have on agile inside Armakuni. I am limiting my scope for this article: I will focus on “building the thing right” rather than working…

What Prussia can teach us about serverless — Armakuni has always been a Cloud Native company. We rode that first wave of being able to take advantage of easy to use self-service PaaS systems, and turned them into commercial benefits, for our customers, and their customers as far back as 2012. But 2012 was nearly a decade ago…

Armakuni is a company that works remotely and is often spread far throughout the UK (and Europe). We have been doing this long before the current Pandemic. What’s more, even when we are together, we have a broad client base so often we’re not working in more than pairs (we…

Software Engineering Topic of the Day #27 — Note: This was originally written and published on the internal Armakuni Slack, by me This is another Video one. Today we’re going to see how to use TCR and what it’s benefits are Q1: What changes in how you work has this exercise taught you? Q2: How did it feel losing your code? Q3: Are there other interesting ways to learn good development practices?

Software Engineering Topic of the Day #26 — Note: This was originally written and published on the internal Armakuni Slack, by Tom Oram Connascence is a software quality metric and a taxonomy for different types of coupling. We can use it to inform our decisions about how and where to reduce coupling in our systems. Connascence has three…

Software Engineering Topic of the Day #25 — Note: This was originally written and published on the internal Armakuni Slack, by Tom Oram This Law of Demeter is a design guideline for developing object-oriented software. It’s goal is to reduce coupling in your code. The law is formulated like so: Each unit should have only limited knowledge about…

Software Engineering Topic of the Day #24 — Note: This was originally written and published on the internal Armakuni Slack, by Rory Grieve The composite pattern is one of the original design patterns from the Gang of Four Design Patterns book. It’s designed to deal with hierarchical relationships as a tree structure. …

Software Engineering Topic of the Day #23 — Note: This was originally written and published on the internal Armakuni Slack, by Tom Oram If you have a powerful IDE like IntelliJ then you have some great refactoring tools at your fingertips. Learning the individual refactorings is a great starting point, however, if you learn to compose them together…