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Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
Fred Hebert discusses various small approaches and patterns that influence how teams deal with reliability, and highlights some of the key interactions and behaviors.
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Essential Complexity in Systems Architecture
Laura Nolan looks at some real distributed system architectures and examines the tradeoffs made, showing how simple systems can create complex and difficult to understand behaviors.
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Can Chaos Coerce Clarity from Compounding Complexity? Certainly
Matt Simons attempts to catch some Black Swans in a system’s architecture and infrastructure, hidden in increased complexity.
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The Complexity Toolkit: Techniques for Navigating Uncertainty
Marcus Williams and Simon Lawrence use Cynefin as a lens to discuss how techniques including Hypothesis-Driven Development and The Mikado Method can help teams navigate the domain of complexity.
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The Trouble with Learning in Complex Systems
Jason Hand explores the challenges with learning in complex systems, the relationship between high and low stakes learning opportunities, as well as the cost associated.
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The Failure of Focus
Liz Keogh looks at different strategies for approaching complex ecosystems, starting from the existing status quo and incrementally innovating.
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The Failure of Focus
Liz Keogh discusses different strategies for approaching complex ecosystems, starting from where we are right now, and allowing innovation to emerge through obliquity, naivety, and serendipity.
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Reasoning about Complex Distributed Systems
Erich Ess discusses technical tools needed to gain information on a complex system and practical approaches to convert that information into an actual understanding of the system.
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Coaching New Management Behaviors
Christopher Chapman introduces W.E. Deming's philosophy and Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, providing a basis for managers to learn to manage complexity and systems instead of people.
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It's Systems All The Way Down!
Chris McDermott introduces systems and systems thinking, complex adaptive systems, and some Lean techniques that help develop more effective systems.
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Managing Complexity, Functionally
Ryan Trinkle explores functional techniques for managing complexity, examines what makes them successful in pure functional programming, and proposes ways that they can be applied in any context.
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Microservices Are (Conceptually) Too Big
Philip Wills believes that thinking about independent services and single responsibility applications rather than microservices can help to clarify the architectural complexity trade-offs.