Like many these days, I’ve been having my Twitter feed filled up with endless tweets of “Wordle”. I was reluctant to learn what Wordle was until recently (mainly due to some hipster based stubbornness of not wanting to go with trends probably). My main hangup with these simple games is, rather appropriately, simple: I don’t find them fun. What I do find fun however, is learning how they work so that I can cheat at them. You play your way, I’ll play mine. ...
In many modern system architectures, there exists some common building blocks between systems. We generally call these the “Platform” (See Facebooks “Platform Engineer” role), which makes a nice analogy as these components are supposed to form a solid base for you to build a system on top of. But how should we manage these common pieces? Therein lies an interesting question, that I here offer some thoughts on. Organisational Models There’s three main organisational models I have seen in the wild, each with their benefits and drawbacks. ...