Do you have a current organization-wide plan for technology (including paying for continuing education in order to learn about emerging technologies)? If so, is it being followed?
And as a follow-up -
if you have organization-wide plans, do they include allocating resources to develop and test new programs, services, and delivery mechanisms?
I came across this article on Medium that I found interesting: Six Rules of Thumb for Scaling Software Architectures | by Ian Gorton | Medium
The six rules given are:
- Cost and scalability are indelibly linked
- Your system has a bottleneck. Somewhere!
- Slow services are more evil than failed services
- The data tier is the hardest to scale
- Cache! Cache! And Cache Some More!
- Monitoring is fundamental for scalable systems**
Are there any additional steps you feel should be included? Anything you’d omit or change in this list?
