Designing for Transparency
Learn about visibility in systems and optimization, scaling effects, and coupling.
Local visibility
Transparency arises from deliberate design and architecture. Adding transparency late in development is about as effective as adding quality. Maybe it can be done, but only with greater effort and cost than if it’d been built in from the beginning.
Visibility inside one application or server is not enough. Strictly local visibility leads to strictly local optimization. For example, a retailer ...