Vlad Khononov
@vladikk.bsky.social
Author of Balancing Coupling in Software Design and Learning Domain-Driven Design 🐒
That book was written in 2014. Today, of course, you can ask an LLM to generate questions. But unless you ask it explicitly, it’ll jump into writing code… basing its design decisions on a gazillion implicit assumptions.
June 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
That book was written in 2014. Today, of course, you can ask an LLM to generate questions. But unless you ask it explicitly, it’ll jump into writing code… basing its design decisions on a gazillion implicit assumptions.
One of my favorite books, A More Beautiful Question, draws a clear distinction between us, humans, and computers: computers are great at providing answers, but our strength lies in asking good questions. Questioning everything is a proven way to combat complacency and avoid its dangerous outcomes.
June 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One of my favorite books, A More Beautiful Question, draws a clear distinction between us, humans, and computers: computers are great at providing answers, but our strength lies in asking good questions. Questioning everything is a proven way to combat complacency and avoid its dangerous outcomes.
In the Chaotic domain, you need to act, trust your gut instincts, and only once out of danger, try to make sense of what happened.
June 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the Chaotic domain, you need to act, trust your gut instincts, and only once out of danger, try to make sense of what happened.
Blinded by complacency, you may treat a task as trivial. Initially, it even looks that way. Later on, however, things can take an unexpected turn—for example, when a seemingly innocent change wreaks havoc in production. At that point, you can no longer afford knowledge-based responses.
June 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Blinded by complacency, you may treat a task as trivial. Initially, it even looks that way. Later on, however, things can take an unexpected turn—for example, when a seemingly innocent change wreaks havoc in production. At that point, you can no longer afford knowledge-based responses.
Five years later, Balanced Coupling is back on @infoq.com , now in podcast form. I had a great conversation with @thomasbetts.bsky.social about modularity and complexity — two topics that are, well… coupled by coupling 🙂
Check it out here 👉 www.infoq.com/podcasts/bal...
Check it out here 👉 www.infoq.com/podcasts/bal...
Balancing Coupling in Software Design with Vlad Khononov
In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Vlad Khononov about balancing coupling in software design, the subject of his recent book. They discuss how coupling is necessary for a system to function, but has to be balanced to allow the system to evolve. Vlad identifies three factors that can be used to measure coupling: knowledge sharing, distance, and volatility.
www.infoq.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Five years later, Balanced Coupling is back on @infoq.com , now in podcast form. I had a great conversation with @thomasbetts.bsky.social about modularity and complexity — two topics that are, well… coupled by coupling 🙂
Check it out here 👉 www.infoq.com/podcasts/bal...
Check it out here 👉 www.infoq.com/podcasts/bal...
If you’re curious about the defining moment in my early career, or what inspires me most as an architect, check it out:
deararchitects.xyz/interviews/i...
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Interview with Vlad Khononov
In this interview, he shares the defining moments that shaped his architectural thinking, including hard-learned lessons from the microservices hype, the influence of Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Cons...
deararchitects.xyz
April 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
If you’re curious about the defining moment in my early career, or what inspires me most as an architect, check it out:
deararchitects.xyz/interviews/i...
deararchitects.xyz/interviews/i...
P.S. Huge thanks to all the accidental beta testers who stumbled onto the site while it was still under construction 👷♂️👷♀️
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
P.S. Huge thanks to all the accidental beta testers who stumbled onto the site while it was still under construction 👷♂️👷♀️
Hi Yevhenii 👋
That was the question about using the model to evaluate uncertainty when making estimates
That was the question about using the model to evaluate uncertainty when making estimates
March 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Hi Yevhenii 👋
That was the question about using the model to evaluate uncertainty when making estimates
That was the question about using the model to evaluate uncertainty when making estimates
Yay! Thank you so much for the kind words, Barry! So happy to hear that you liked the book 😊
January 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Yay! Thank you so much for the kind words, Barry! So happy to hear that you liked the book 😊