Disclaimer:
This post is based upon a piece of dream (not fiction). Any relation to any enterprise grade product is purely coincidental.
This post is based upon a piece of dream (not fiction). Any relation to any enterprise grade product is purely coincidental.
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Now, this is not a flame post against Proprietary Software. I'm a FOSS supporter but with understanding that for some Business...
* paid 24x7 support is a lot more critical than quality
* need to put trust in a product where the Vendor is bound by agreement to help
which is perfectly fine.
Depending on a business requirement and policies, there need to be different solutions provided. Some community supported FOSS and then many large corporations (backed for years) Enterprise Software.
Again, no this post is not on license of software.
This post is on some core values of a software (FOSS or Proprietary) that make it eligible to be used at a worthy scale in a Organization that is depending on it.
These also stand true for any user of that Software Project, but are more crucial for users depending their economy on it.
And are ethically right of the Corporations which are paying big bucks for a piece of code sold to them on high brand and big promises.
Here on I use "Products" for all paid-for (some Enterprise grade) Projects that I got to work on since college and experience the truth underneath.
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So... What qualifies a Project to be a Product?
- 2 old-skool fundamental mantras: loose coupling; high cohesionThere are "Products" with bunch of modules that have separate responsibilities. Correct approach. But when you start to build around them, sometimes they are not that independent in containing self responsibilities.
That's worse than not having your project modular at all, at least that way you promote users to treat it as a black-box.
"Product" need to be well modular-ized emitting the age old beautiful development practices of keeping your modules loosely coupled, strongly cohesive.
- isolated from client specific details
Anything and everything that depicts details about client specific implementation need to be managed as a configuration provided explicitly. There shouldn't be any necessity of find-replace any hard-coded "config text" in source or set-up files for the "Product". These details shan't be required to be packaged with custom traditional set-up of "Product".
- generic out-of-the-box setup... tested and isolated
The "Product" installer binaries shall be self-contained. They can be O.S. distribution specific, which is fine.
They should be unaffected of O.S. level restrictions that may be there or not. Say if SELinux is enabled, your setup shall be able to initiate changes required for the "Product" to function.
Any dependency shall be either bundled in the installer package, or shall utilize the targeted package manager to lay it down for itself.
The installer shall be tested completely in the mode it is supposed to be used. For example, if it sets up the machine remotely then it shall be capable of handling all tasks remotely by itself and not depend on user to place some files for it first or in-between.
- no mesh between services required for initiation
The "Product" might have distributed architecture support, might have modular components collaborating.
Now these distributed components need to be aware of each other to be able to collaborate. The components shall be robust enough to handle unavailable dependency components and regain activity once available.
This awareness can be maintained on a component dedicated to dynamic configuration query and update, where all component instances export details about self and gather information on others. Environment preparation mechanism can populate the initial dynamic information which on requirement can be updated in collaboration-enabling component and gathered by others.
Every component can persist information required for it within itself as well, but that shouldn't be dependent on the other components. If component-F collaborates with component-A and requires component-A to mark some activities for it even to start itself. Bad design.
- don't promote deprecated technology in newer component
Some "Product" have big lifetime, depending on their vastness &/or critical nature. This might lead to existence of certain obsolete technologies (like SOAP in yr2014) usage in newer components.
You shouldn't start rebuilding entire perfectly working "Product" for that, yes. But neither shall you use that as an excuse for holding back entire new development around it. It will cripple the "Product" much faster of surviving in newer circumstances if it can't use the power required for them.
Build a mid-layer contract API and seclude your new work over your legacy "Product". Then build new features over that mid-layer API.
This will help you avoid "Product" becoming a bloatware just because new features can't be used inherently from the design itself. It will also help contain the sanity of perfectly working "Product" from some (library, etc.) changes required for new features. And will let you use more advance current best practices for all the newer work, not cripple it.
If not "Product" in entirety; at least every individual component in itself shall follow unified design/development/interface/platform strategy... it shouldn't have bifurcation of ideals, if necessary a new component shall be carved out and plugged-in instead of corrupting the existing piece.
- different style of code, different degree of documentation
If your code-base is not very huge, beautifully written clean and modular code can survive without documentation.
If your code is not clean (don't judge it yourself, ask someone expert in language/framework but unaware of logic to guess) then have freaking documentation all over it.
If your code-base is "really" huge, even if your code is mostly clean... have a basic module level documentation at least.
So anyone using it knows how to handle them and build upon or around them. Anyone visiting the code-base many years after (if you think your "Product" is capable) with lot improved language features is still able to make sense of what was carved with stone on cave walls.
- building upon/around it shouldn't involve hack-y ways
In small home-brewed solutions, unpack-replace-repack is still arguably accepted solution.
In a freaking "Product", it shall expose an elegant yet secure API interface to extend features. If it allows overriding of existing features, even they shall be plugged in via that interface causing the built-in feature to be subdued.
It's not effortless but is a sane and secure method. The "Product" need this embedded in it's design.
- for all kinds of data-set involved, should have a proper data-modification strategy
Hand modification seem harmless at development stage, even at testing sometimes. In production if any kind of data modification done during setup or updates doesn't have a migration/rollback strategy around it, it's a danger zone signal.
Like proper DB migration scripts over (and not plain diffs of) current version of scripts. I might seem obvious as all other points, but there are bunch of Product missing one or other variations of it.
- take care of sensitive data involved even during setup of "Product"
If your Product in any manner forces display or storage of sensitive data (usernames, passwords, machine names, network details, yada yada yada), danger zone again.
- have at least some level of sanity tests for all logic flows
Even in this age of software development, if importance of software testing (acceptance, regression, security) need to be advocated to you, it's disaster.
To state obvious... any change can be tracked properly, all technologists have some level of idea and trust on what's where doing what, people picking it much later can build over it without breaking anything.
and some things, but that for some other time.....
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LONG QUESTION:
Could a piece of software sold by "so called tech moghul" Organizations be so crappy that the only purpose it fills is vendor lock-in for years of licensing and not even the creators know it's buggy to its core?
SHORT ANSWER:
Yes! So chose with care.
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