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Rechtin on Ultraquality - Redundancy and Fault Tolerance

The Writings of a Complex Systems Architecture Legend

Ken McCormack –

Lean Agile Architecture and Development

February 04, 2018

In his classic (but criminally overlooked) 1991 book "Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems," Eberhardt Rechtin discusses technical, managerial and architectural responses to the challenge of building high quality systems. Despite being several decades old, 'modern' techniques like Lean manufacturing . . .

Talk on Continuous Delivery Architecture and Practices

Nondeterminism, xUnit, up-skilling, TDD materials and debates

Ken McCormack –

Lean Agile Architecture and Development

December 04, 2015

I did a talk recently at the Sydney Alt.Net Meetup on testing practices for Continuous Delivery.

The talk was an introductory tour of the Continuous Delivery ecosystem, as it relates to technical practices such as TDD (for example, xUnit Test Patterns) and software architecture for testability. You can find the slides on Slideshare.

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