- Topics
- Communication,
- Distributed Teams,
- Teamwork,
- QCon,
- Stories & Case Studies,
- Conferences,
- Architecture,
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Agile,
- QCon London 2010,
- Skype
Andres Kutt discusses his experience as architect at Skype for five years, sharing some of the lessons learned: rules of thumb do not always apply, functionality is important, use simple solutions, buzzwords are dangerous, the architecture needs to fit into the organization, and communication is important.
- Topics
- Stories & Case Studies,
- Automation,
- Architecture,
- Update,
- Testing,
- Skype,
- Agile,
- Failure
On December 22nd, 1600 GMT, the Skype services started to become unavailable, in the beginning for a small part of the users, then for more and more, until the network was down for about 24 hours. A week later, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, explained what happened in a post-mortem analysis of the outage.
