The Nimble Coder

Software design, architecture and development!

In October of 2016, my current employer opened their doors and hosted an IDesign training in our St. Louis office. The Architecture Clinic literally drew software architects and developers from around the globe. I was fortunate enough to attend. An extremely intense week of hands on training in software design and architecture. What an experience it was.

Shortly before the clinic, I had begun practicing and using IDesign's The Method™ to design and build software systems - and I have not looked back. 

IDesign's The Method™ is by far the absolute best approach to designing and building software systems that I have ever been exposed to. Their approach is centered around Volatility Based Decomposition or VBD. VBD is the process of identifying the volatile areas of the business and then encapsulating those areas into components. It is a true microservice approach.

The Method™ uses a set of self describing diagrams that help convey design and construction intent to your development team. Given this, building systems is easier and faster because the entire team understands what needs to be built and, more importantly, what it looks like from a design perspective.