Design discussions

Questions to think about

  • Has the story been written

  • Who are the stake holders involved in this piece of work

    • Who will be affected

    • Who will need to do work

  • What are the requirements of the change?

    • non negiotable

      • SLA? Deadlines?

    • nice to haves

  • What is the simplest and easiest thing to do

    • Is this good practise

    • Is this an opportune moment to do somethign different, while later it will be harder to change

  • What are the alternatives

    • How do they compare? The trade offs?

    • How will other people from other teams have to cope with the work needed as part of this? Can they do this?

    • Timeframe

    • Will there be different technologies

    • New application

    • Is there a similar solution in other projects or teams

  • How will this be tested?

    • Is it easy to test?

  • Does it affect deployment, monitoring?

  • Is it necessary?

System

  • https://github.com/michael-kehoe/sre-interview/blob/master/system-design.md

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iqjhi3kusY Designing Systems - What I wish I knew • Jakub Nabrdalik • Devoxx Poland 2021

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