Index

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• A

  • Acceptance Testing
  • Acquisition / Consolidation Cycle
  • Aesthetic Condescension
  • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
  • Agile & Less Iterative Activities
  • Andon Cord
  • Assumptions
  • (The) Atomic Deployment Strategy
  • Automation Also Creates Chalenges
  • Availability

• B

  • Batching
  • Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
  • BDD Benefits - Common Language
  • Bias
  • Blast Radius
  • Blast Radius v Contagion
  • Build v Buy
  • Blue/Green Deployments
  • Branching Strategies
  • Bulkheads

• C

  • (the many forms of) Coupling
  • Canary Releases & A/B Testing
  • The Cloud
  • Cloud Agnosticism
  • Consolidation
  • Contagion
  • Context Switching
  • Control
  • (Business) Continuity
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
  • Creeping Normalcy
  • "Customer-Centric"
  • Cybercrime
  • (The) Cycle Of Discontent

• D

  • Declarative v Imperative
  • Declarative v Imperative Leadership
  • Direct-to-Database
  • Domain Pollution
  • "Debt" Accrues By Not Sharing Context
  • Divergence v Conformance
  • Denial-Of-Service (DoS)
  • DORA Metrics
  • Duplication

• E

  • Entropy
  • Economies Of Scale
  • Effective Over Efficient
  • End-To-End (E2E) Testing
  • Expediting
  • Endless Expediting
  • Exploratory Testing
  • Extensibility
  • Evolvability
  • Evolution's Pecking Order

• F

  • Feature Flags
  • Flooding the System
  • Frankenstein's Monster Systems
  • Functional Intersection

• G

  • Goldilocks Granularity
  • Granularity & Aggregation
  • Growth through Acquisition
  • Growth without Consolidation

• H

  • ...
  • How We Got Here

• I

  • IAAS, PAAS & SAAS Responsibilities
  • Immediate v Eventual Consistency
  • Inappropriate Foundations
  • Indirection
  • Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
  • Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS)
  • Integrability
  • Integration Testing

• J

  • JIT ...

• K

  • ...
  • KPIS

• L

  • Late Integration
  • Lowest Common Denominator
  • Lengthy Release Cycles
  • Lift-and-Shift
  • Load Testing

• M

  • Maintainability
  • Manageability
  • Manufacturing Purgatory
  • Minimal Divergence
  • Mobbing, Pairing, & Indy
  • Monoliths
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) & Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

• N

  • Neglecting to Consolidate

• O

  • Observability

• P

  • Paradox of Choice
  • PAAS (PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE)
  • Penetration ("Pen") Testing
  • Performance
  • Portability
  • Predictability
  • Principle of Least Privilege
  • The Principle of Locality
  • Productivity
  • Project Bias

• Q

  • Quality is Subjective
  • Queues & Streams

• R

  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reaction
  • Recalibration Wobble
  • Reliability Through Data Duplication
  • Regression Testing
  • Releasability
  • Reliability
  • Resilience
  • Roadmaps
  • Reuse / Reusability
  • Runtime & Change Resilience

• S

  • Safety Net
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • The Sensible Reuse Principle (Or Glass Slipper Reuse)
  • Separation of Concerns
  • Serverless
  • Shared Context
  • Silos
  • Single Point of Failure
  • SLAS
  • Smoke Testing
  • Specialsits V Generalists
  • Strategy
  • Stress Testing
  • Sustainability
  • Synchronous v Asynchronous Interactions

• T

  • Table Stakes
  • Technical Debt
  • Technical Qualities
  • Testability
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Test Granularity
  • Theory of Constraints - Constraint Exploitation
  • The Three S's - Survival, Sustainability & Strategy
  • Twelve Factor Applications

• U

  • Uniformity
  • Unit Testing
  • Uniformity
  • Unit-Level Efficiency Bias
  • Unsustainable Growth
  • Upgrade Procrastination

• V

  • Value Identification
  • Value Contextualisation
  • Volume Testing

• W

  • Waste Management & Transferral
  • The Weakest Link is the Decisive Factor
  • Why Test?
  • When to Test?
  • Work Item Delivery Flow
  • Work-In-Progress (WIP)

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