Doing software development from bottom up when you need to or is this a norm?
If somebody asked you to first build the wheels for the car before having the car at all, what would you do?
First, I would question if I need to design/build 4 lug or 5 lug wheels. Then I would need to predict or ask about some details to figure out the proper offset and width for the wheels so they don’t stick outside the fenders.
Now how does this car analogy apply to software engineering?
First, you need to know and define the API contract. Then you would probably build a stub or mocked version of your API and you would put yourself in the shoes of the client trying to use it in cases that you can predict.
Depending on the performance requirements, you may end up adding caching and other improvements.
This approach is actually not that uncommon. This is actually how you would approach your team to team and microservice to microservice dependencies regardless of how well you know your consumer; it is important to maintain that discipline at the technical level but as for human communication leverage the closeness you have with other teams.
Almir Mustafic
Brand New programming language and one solution OR Two existing programming languages, one solution for EACH? I understand that there is no right or wrong. It all depends on your software architecture, team structure, team skills and other factors, but I still want to explain the scenario as it may look familiar to some. Let me explain. Let’s assume that you have microservices and common libraries in two major programming languages. You have some teams who are experts in one and some teams experts in the other programming language. Now you need to come up with a solution for a scenario that all teams will need to leverage. Let’s assume that your cloud platform has an off-the-shelf approach for this but it is supported by a 3rd programming language that your teams do not have much experience in. What is the right thing for your organization and not just from the technical point of view? A) Do you embrace what your cloud platform gives you off the shelf and implement thi...
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