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Today it struck me that #systemsDesign and #informationArchitecture planning are 95% emotional labor 5% technical understanding. People who write great code may set up healthy structures but they only do so when a shared model has been agreed upon by the stakeholders. This sets consensus building as the first essential skill set needed to get the job done. You want a great systems architect? How are their hostage negotiation skills?

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I've been observing engineering teams, companies and the whole tech space building up ever-growing tech stacks, systems with a complexity never seen before. At the same time we're all experiencing systems being breached every day. The latter is a direct consequence of the former. Let's make tech more secure by making it simpler; simpler to understand, simpler to change, harder to attack.

SYSTEMS + CULTURE. I've posted a new Icon Design Guide to step you through the design of the Visual Vocabulary of Systems and Visual Vocabulary of Culture. All 330 icons follow this syntax and semiotic philosophy. Given that these codices are open source, the guide will help those who wish to modify or adapt the icons. To download, visit systemviz.com or cultureviz.com .

Check out this new session with Kenneth && Paul on the topic of developing provider abstraction libraries according to The Standard.

These libraries are crucial in enabling remote and local testing for E2E systems in addition to pushing standardization further beyond the Brokers realm in any enterprise system

Enjoy the session.

#thestandard #abstraction #systemsdesign

youtube.com/watch?v=JEb0BA8CgF

A simple diagram to show a high-level view of the difference between Standardized and chaotic systems.

If you like the view on the left, read more about how to bring your system to a clean, test-driven, maintainable state according to The Standard

Here's a free copy of The Standard:
github.com/hassanhabib/The-Sta

You can also get a hard copy from here:
amazon.com/Standard-Ultimate-B

Read what other engineers from all around the world have said about The Standard here:
github.com/hassanhabib/The-Sta