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12 links collected from martinfowler.com between 2010 and 2023

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2010

2010-02-17 martinfowler.com
VersionControlTools
If you spend time talking to software developers about tools, one of the biggest topics I hear about are version control tools. Once you’ve got to the point of using version control tools, and any competent developers does, then they become a big part of your life. Version tools are not just important for maintaining a history of a project, they are also the foundation for a team to collaborate. So it’s no surprise that I hear frequent complaints about poor version control tools.

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2011

2011-07-07 martinfowler.com
PackageCustomization
Gartner recently estimated that it would take $500 billion to bring corporate systems up to latest versions (rising to $1 trillion by 2015). That’s a big number, but the real cost is how much money has been wasted in customizations that weren’t worthwhile or could have been cheaper with a purely custom route.

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2012

2012-05-11 martinfowler.com
CQRS
The mainstream approach people use for interacting with an information system is to treat it as a CRUD datastore. By this I mean that we have mental model of some record structure where we can create new records, read records, update existing records, and delete records when we’re done with them. In the simplest case, our interactions are all about storing and retrieving these records. As our needs become more sophisticated we steadily move away from that model.

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2015

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2016

2016-01-19 martinfowler.com
Feature Toggles
Feature toggles are a powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code. They fall into various usage categories, and it’s important to take that categorization into account when implementing and managing toggles. Toggles introduce complexity. We can keep that complexity in check by using smart toggle implementation practices and appropriate tools to manage our toggle configuration, but we should also aim to constrain the number of toggles in our system.

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2017

2017-06-16 martinfowler.com
SnowflakeServer
The first problem with a snowflake server is that it’s difficult to reproduce.

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2022

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2023

2023-02-12 martinfowler.com
The Agile Fluency Model
In our work with agile teams and organizations, we’ve seen that teams follow a typical progression in their understanding of agile approaches and the benefits their organization receives. We’ve grouped this progression into four zones of fluency.

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