It’s an approach that has been with us for some years. It’s a common design pattern that I most often see both misunderstood and poorly executed. Software is best built by small autonomous teams, we need to manage the complexity of the systems we build so breaking this
Or possibly narrow vs general.. Well it depends on how you frame this; Providers like OpenAI have generalised search and now are making inroads to LLM as an OS with 3rd party app integration and agent development toolkits. For consumer based propositions this makes a lot of sense as an
It’s assumed that Fractional CTO roles turn into permanent ones. They often don’t. This is really because a fractional or interim role is a transitionary one. You’re getting the business from A-B. The business may shift with every new major investment round. New board members may have
Many non-technical founders come from completely outside the software and technology industry. Entrepreneurial culture and speculative finance has encouraged this. Large pool of small speculations turns into a smaller pool of eventual success afterall. But I would never imagine I might be able to jump into someone else’s highly
It seems a bit like the word strategy is bandied about in business so is architecture in software. When we think about architecture we are considering significant decisions things which will have major cost or business implications. Which cloud provider to pick, whether to implement microservices or not, whether to
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