A series of articles about Software Architecture, ranging from the philosophical to the practical to the mundane.

Aug 23, 2016

Architecting where I’m Architecting.

This week has been a bit of a depature form the norm for me, as I’ve been engaged in a different sort of project. You see, August 13th, we opened up our garage as part of the Annual Bernal Heights Hillwide Garage Sale. The sale is always a lot of fun, as the…

Domain-first vs. Schema-first Architecting

I have spent a lot of time talking about a “domain-first” approach to designing and building software. As the title of this publication suggests, “That’s What I’m Talking About.” This has taken me down the path of advocating for static types and in…

Brian Lawler

Aug 9, 2016

Software that Sucks, Brought to You by Engineers, Architects, and Humans

After I published last week’s article on static typing, I read it through one more time and then clicked on one of the recommended articles at the bottom. It was one of those articles that Software…

Software Engineering Discipline with the Help of Static Types

Last week, I wrote about the many tradeoffs that we face when writing software. In that post I asserted how important it is to have some intrinsic architectural choices made ahead of time so that we have some anchors to hang…

Brian Lawler

Jul 26, 2016

Understanding the Tradeoffs

I have gone through a few different ideas of what I should be writing about this week. And here I sit on Saturday morning, still pondering the tradeoffs. Tradeoffs are, after all, at the heart of everything we do as Software Architects and Engineers. When we start a new project…

Brian Lawler

Jul 19, 2016

Beware the Quick Start Panacea, and the Importance of Layers

Any web framework that you come across these days will try to entice to use it by convincing you that you can get an application “up and running in 10 minutes!!” While I appreciate the desire to jump in and start getting…

Hello.

So here we are, on the new new platform for self expression on the internet. I am a self and have much to express, so clearly I should be here too! Of course, you may not be interested in what I have to say since it will all be nerdy, extremely esoteric stuff about writing and running computer software. Apologies…