Martijn Veldkamp

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  • Complexity? It is everywhere!

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    All of us Architects have experience with our different customers and their complex and bulky application landscapes. And the numerous challenges that they cause. We are not allowed to change or update the MiddleWare because it is so critical for our day to day operations Usual Suspects The Usual Suspects https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/ Next to high maintenance…

  • What we have done is to make it dramatically easier to navigate the corporate ladder

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    Conways Law Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure — Melvin E. Conway. I’ve blogged previously on the topic of Technical Debt and ways to prevent and or overcome it. I’ve used my brilliant PowerPoint skills for pictures like this:…

  • ChatGPT or AI in your work environment?

    ChatGPT or AI in your work environment?

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    ChatGPT, an A.I. system developed by OpenAI, is available to the public since the end of 2022. It has been making big waves since. From making students book…

  • Delivery is like a Relay Run

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    As promised in my earlier blogs. I am writing a blog a month and I write about Architecture, Governance and Changing the Process or the Implementation and last month was about Technical debt. This month it is about going live successfully. Why? The relay run that the Dutch team lost due to a faulty handover…

  • Technical Debt and how to solve it

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    As promised in my earlier blog. I will try to write more often and will write about Changing the Process or the Implementation and Technical debt. Technical debt? What is that? It is a phrase from the famous software developer, Ward Cunningham. Who besides to being one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, is…

  • Simplify Add Lightness Martijn Veldkamp

    Simplify Add Lightness Martijn Veldkamp

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    This famous quote is from Colin Chapman. It was his philosophy, somewhere in 1950 way before ‘minimalism’ became fashionable. Least number of parts By tradition, Lotus uses the least number of parts needed in its products. Yet, they are impeccably engineered, retain their lightness and work dependably. This is a great analogy and one we…

  • “Simplify, then add lightness”

    “Simplify, then add lightness”

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    “Simplify, then add lightness” This famous quote is from Colin Chapman. It was his philosophy, somewhere in 1950 way before ‘minimalism’ became fashionable.…

  • Software as an Onion (SaaO)

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    Software is like an onion. Your team’s code is one “layer” in this onion. There are layers below you (which you rely on), and layers above you (which rely on…

  • myEinstein

    myEinstein

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    This year’s Salesforce Dreamforce conference started rather big with the announcement of my Einstein. The news spread quickly through the massive crowd of 170,000 plus attendees at Dreamforce 2017 and was met with equal levels of enthusiasm and scepticism. The Einstein machine learning platform has been updated with new predictive insights and chatbot capabilities. In…

  • Oracle in the Cloud is busy, very busy

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    Apiary Oracle’s first Cloud move this year was to buy Apiary, an enterprise API specialist. Apiary provides hosted tools to build, test and monitor APIs working with REST protocol. It had three funding rounds totaling 10 million dollars. The firm marries DevOps with workflow for enterprise services and data to be turned into cloud-based applications…