Optimization is a key

Without you taking any action, the collection of functionalities that you will have tomorrow is probably richer than the one you have today and will cost you nothing.

On the contrary, once you start writing code for your applications, you will incur execution costs. That’s ...

To make the jump, many of these companies also need to understand that the only way to make a product better is to transform it into an industry standard.

To name just a few examples, we don’t put our savings in banks anymore; we use FinTechs. We don’t protect our properties by contracting ...

“The time of keeping recipes in the drawer is over.”

The best way of protecting an idea is sharing it immediately. It was quickly recognized that the only way of getting there was by accelerating innovation and sharing knowledge with the com...

It depends on the industry but as a general rule, whatever makes them obtain better business outcomes.

For example, for an insurance company, better results mean selling more policies, whereas for a car manufacturer, it translates into selling more cars. Complementary, for a SaaS company, a...

You have to design, build, and test your whole system for failure from the ground up, so the higher-order systems that are core to your mission rely on stable and tested infrastructure.

Focusing on the stuff that had nothing intrinsically to do with your business function is of utmost impor...

We need to be careful with layered architectures so that domain-specific services are not deployed on top of that platform infrastructure. Instead, they are deployed with it, side to side.

Serverless computing is entirely based on industry standards and protocols (in many cases even open-so...

• Cloud Compute. The rationalization of access and consumption of managed cloud services.
• Lifecycle Automation. The heavy-lifting of repetitive and low-value tasks through automation, especially for the provisioning of environments and the deployment o...

Even if you take the best software engineers to build your software, you can’t guarantee that the end product will be successful.

You need processes.

Processes help improve the chances to create quality software, and that’s precisely a core engineering property: learn from the mistake...

Opening the business APIs and letting partners and external contributors build new applications is vital for your future. As the Jevons paradox31 has taught us, new higher-order systems and innovations will emerge from this move, enabling you to compete in an elevated playfield that will boost th...

• People have a flawed "thing", call it X.
• In order to escape the flaws of X, they turn to Y. Y is flawed too, but it's flawed in different ways. These people compare the flaws of X to the flaws of Y and decide that Y is more appropriate for their use case.
• Use of Y spreads. Ov...

This agile paradigm is easier to follow when technology is at the center of the business, not just a means to support it. This approach is nothing but applied science, a clear manifestation of the hypothesis-driven scientific method, backed by Agile software development doctrines such as Extreme ...