ramblings

Culture Patterns
By focussing on data and not code, I feel Yahoo! managed to accumulate a fertile mass of brains.
By switching to Java, the stratification index climbed, and trees bearing fruit of higher complexity left.
By focussing on end-points and not stacks, Groupon quickly accumulated global developer muscle, with a multitude of stacks and languages.


Large Dev Patterns
The Interpreter Tracer Bullet
It might be a good idea to build a groovy interpreter into your web application  when you start. Working in an enterprise environment is clunky, and when you are connecting to databases which might not have data, libraries which are obtuse  etc , trying out things is the only way to get anything done. And restarting a tomcat for every single code change makes for slow and frustrating progress.