Kevlin Henney

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer. His work focuses on patterns and architecture, programming techniques and languages, and development process and practice. He has been a columnist for various magazines and online publications, contributor to open- and closed-source codebases, and advisor and committee member for software publications, events, and standards. Kevlin is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

Radar

Scaling False Peaks

August 4, 2022

The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

October 12, 2021

When Copilot writes your code, will you care whether it’s good or bad?

On Exactitude in Technical Debt

November 17, 2020

What does a metaphor like “technical debt” mean? And what doesn’t it mean?

The architecture of uncertainty

October 21, 2016

Kevlin Henney explains how uncertainty, lack of knowledge, and options can be used to drive a system’s architecture and its development schedule.