2024/02/14

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11:14

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EM.413 Bruce Cameron System Architecture meeting

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brief discussion about Entropy again as it relates to code

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Does software need separate architecture?

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other engineering disciplines need to build architectures separately, but this doesn’t happen in code

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I think that’s partially because code, in principle, contains the architecture. It’s the essence of designing the system

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this doesn’t mean it’s actually easy to extract that, and that’s what Dan Sturtevant is working on

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ways to organize an org

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functional

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business units

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or both

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Benefits of commonality

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similar vs identical

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80% sharing is much less useful than identical

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even 99% sharing still requires two items in inventory

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benefits of similarity is often over estimated, but benefits of commonality generally is under estimated (especially for identical)

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