Favorite Quotes

"Architecture is the what, why, and when. Tools are used to make the architecture a reality; tools are the how."By Fundamentals of Data Engineering

"A reassignment from the technical ladder to a corresponding level on the managerial one should never be accompanied by a raise, and it should be announced always as a "reassignment," never as a "promotion.""By Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition

"As a leader, you have a responsibility to make the implicit explicit. It’s not fair, but if a junior person asks these questions, the team may sigh and say, yes, obviously we thought of that. If an expert asks, team members learn that they should include explicit answers to these questions in their design documentation"—The Staff Engineer's Path

"as an architect, pay close attention to developer flow and be sure not to disrupt it by calling a meeting. Flow is a state of mind developers frequently get into where the brain gets 100% engaged in a particular problem, allowing full attention and maximum creativity."By Fundamentals of Software Architecture

"A series of numbers might mean nothing to you, but visualizing them on a graph might reveal the relationships among these numbers. Dashboards to visualize metrics are critical for monitoring."By Designing Machine Learning Systems