Secret Life of Systems
Lifecycles of software systems that solve real world problems can be broken down into distinct phases based on where it is with respect to the problem and the eventual solution.
This article presents a taxonomy of these phases that should help you understand how each part of the lifecycle fits together.
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Why I Hate Carousels
- Don’t use carousels in your UI.
- Instead, if you must stick content into little cards, let the horionztal layout wrap to additional lines.
- If you end up with too many horizontal lines of content, then you definitely have too many items that can be accessed via a horizontally panning UI. You need a different UI altogether.
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Inclusion/Equity and Evaluating Negatives
Evaluating properties like inclusion and equity of products can’t be done through exhaustive enumeration of product outcomes. Instead we will need to increasingly rely on the controls that we place how we construct the products.
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Happy New Year 2024 and Year in Review 2023
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Thirteen Years
Some reflections from thirteen years at Google.
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Pillars And Governance Structures
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A Good API: g9
Adding more knobs doesn’t make your API more powerful.
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The Point of a Strategy
The only useful strategy is one that reduces risks.
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Just Enough Technical Debt
Zero technical debt isn’t always the answer.
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Code As UI: The UX of config-as-code and everything-as-code
Configuration-as-code has the same usability issues as everything else as code along with the same benefits.
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