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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Platform teams shouldn't predict the future but observe the present. When multiple teams build similar solutions, commoditize the pattern. Make it the default, keep escape hatches. Good ideas spread upwards through platforms, not downwards through rules and mandates.

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Teams anchored to solutions defend them even when their context changes. Teams anchored to problems evolve. 'We manage Jenkins' (rigidity) 'We enable continuous delivery' (adaptability) When your identity is the solution, you protect it. When it's the problem, you solve it.

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Internal platforms aren't infrastructure tools. They're organizational memory. Each capability encodes a problem multiple teams already solved. Platform teams aren't only service providers, but curators of collective learning.

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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

My latest YouTube short for the Modern Software Engineering channel, "Does Your Software Development Prioritize Business?": www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRut...

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Does Your Software Development Prioritize Business? #agile

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Don't focus on engineering prompts, focus on engineering context instead. "[...] as applications grow more complex, it’s becoming clear that providing complete and structured context to the AI is far more important than any magic wording. blog.langchain.com/the-rise-of-...

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The rise of "context engineering"

Header image from Dex Horthy on Twitter. Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the right information and tools in the right format such that the LLM can plausibly accomplish the…

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I remember Adrian Colyer publishing a post about David Parnas’s work in the context of modern microservice architectures a few years ago. Unfortunately, his blog is no longer online, but thanks to the Wayback Machine, I was able to dig it up. web.archive.org/web/20240424...

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Information distribution aspects of design methodology | the morning paper

Information distribution aspects of design methodology Parnas, 1971

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Seriously? How awesome is this? Rick Rubin, the legendary producer of artists like Neil Young, U2, Metallica, Adele, System of a Down (and many more), wrote a book with Anthropic on Vibe Coding!

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

@hollycummins.com 's discussion in the Engineering Culture podcast about developer productivity reminds me a lot of Cal Newport's notion of "seudo productivity" vs "slow productivity" in his newest book (buff.ly/VBBEZBi) Btw, give the podcast episode a listen, it's great:

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Productivity Through Play: Why Messing Around Makes Better Software Engineers

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Holly Cummins about productivity in creative knowledge work like software engineering. She talks about how "messing around…

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is actually one of the best-structured arguments for using feature flags that I've seen in a long time: buff.ly/dgOdKlV Separate deployments (continuously delivering code to production) from releases (switching code "live" for users).

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Deploys Are The ✨WRONG✨ Way To Change User Experience

This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there’s one thing I haven’t sufficiently ranted about…

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I listened to @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com interview with GitHub's CEO @ashtom.bsky.social today. What amazes me is that GitHub is mostly still a monolithic Ruby on Rails application and that it works so reliably at that scale.

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

While I'm bullish about LLMs and use them widely myself, this issue is something I've been worried about for a long time. Now, some empirical evidence seems to be emerging about this. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I just published a new article on the dynamics between platform and application teams. Discover how to build platform teams which enable teams instead of becoming a bottleneck. Read the full article here: www.shapingshifts.com/p/designing-...

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Designing Effective Cross-Team Dynamics For Platform Teams

Discover how to transform platform teams from bottlenecks into powerful enablers.

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Danke an alle, die beim Vortrag von Stefan Toth und mir auf der @OOP Konferenz dabei waren. Wir haben über Herausforderungen im Microservices-Umfeld gesprochen und diskutiert, wie evolutionäre Architektur dabei hilft. 👉 Folien-Download: www.embarc.de/microservice... #oop2024 #OOPMuc

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Freue mich riesig auf meinen Vortrag heute um 14:30 auf der OOP gemeinsam mit Stefan Toth. Lasst uns gemeinsam diskutieren, wie evolutionäre Architektur bei modernen Herausforderungen im Microservices-Umfeld hilft. Seid dabei! #oop2024 #OOPMuc

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Gleich gehts los! Interessiert an evolutionärer Architektur, aber unsicher, wie ihr beginnen sollt? Trefft mich um 10:40 auf der OOP zum Software Snack am Stand von Embarc & Open Knowledge. Ich habe da was für euch! #oop2024 #OOPMuc #sws2024

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Alex Kaserbacher @alexksbr.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Heyheyhey, let's try this Bluesky thing

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