Last time I talked about the origins of the architecture of the modern web and how it is what it is because people like Tim Berners-Lee and Roy Fielding radically decomposed the problem space into its stable, long-living, constituent parts. These parts are the constraining building blocks of REST and the web.
The design for the web came off the back of some visionary work by Va...
In late 2011, I was asked to talk at a conference on digital trends. I didn’t have anything prepared so hastily suggested the topic “100-Year Architecture,” thinking that sounded clickbaity enough to get people to show up and I could fill in the blanks later. I did though have one thought in my head to build on - the 10,000-Year Clock being built by the Long Now Foundation - which I hoped mi...
A lot of businesses say they want to be ‘digital.’ And I think when they say that they mean two things:
(A) they want to create an end-to-end suite of slick apps for their customers to enable them to self-serve, have a great experience, develop some love for the brand
(B) they want a delivery capability to make that happen, which must therefore include a good smattering of highly-motivated clever people wh...
This is stating the obvious, but it’s still worth stating - whatever ambitious vision a company has, and whatever obstacles might stand in the way of that vision, you are infinitely more likely to achieve that vision if you can create and nurture a thriving culture. You can have the greatest strategy in the world and still fail because:
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfa...
It may seem odd in 2023 to be talking about moving infrastructure to the cloud, but I am constantly surprised at how many businesses that could be cloud-based aren’t. AWS has been around for 17 years, Google Cloud for 15 years, Azure for 13 years and alternative cloud offerings for 10 years. Actually, I say I’m surprised, but perhaps intrigued is a better word. Like so much in tech, these things do have a sort o...