maximizing business value
When you’re an independent developer you are by default a full stack engineer; whether you want to be or not. Although my day job is in a full-time innovation team, I also build solutions in my spare time — apps, websites, Alexa Skills and more.
My time (and everyone else’s) is limited, so it’s really important to consider how much time to spend on each layer, frontend and backend. These considerations will have an impact on my actual architectural and design decisions.
I always start with what’s important to users.
What’s important to users
When I build an app or website (or whatever), I always begin by writing up a list of what I think is important. It probably should go without saying — the number one item is:
What I’m building actually needs to do something that t...