How you should write software design documents
In my last blog post I explained why writing design documents is such a powerful approach to building well-engineered systems. But what should one document?
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
In my last blog post I explained why writing design documents is such a powerful approach to building well-engineered systems. But what should one document?
Many software engineers never write design documents. Design documentation takes time, and implementations often proceed so far without any documentation that if it happens, it’s an act of recording what has been done — a tedious task at the best…