· 2 min read
When does a platform team pay for itself?
The internal platform is a product with one captive customer and no price signal. A briefing on the arithmetic, and the two failure modes it prevents.
#platform-teams#organizations#tradeoffs
Tagged: tradeoffs
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· 3 min read
Is event sourcing worth it?
The pattern with the best demo-to-production regret ratio in our files. Where it earns its complexity, where it manufactures it, and the middle that usually wins.
#event-sourcing#design#tradeoffs
· 3 min read
What does a deadline do to a design?
Deadlines do not just compress schedules. They select architectures, in a predictable direction. A briefing on designing under a date without designing for one.
#design#decision-records#tradeoffs
· 3 min read
When is the answer not microservices?
More often than the conference circuit admits, and the discriminating variable is not scale. A briefing on the question that precedes the pattern.
#microservices#design#tradeoffs