Want to move to Design and Architecture areas

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I am in .net development since last 10 yrs now and time has just run for me.I have done lot of development work but never got a chance to work with teams where quality and high level ideas like app. monitoring,audit control, health checkup, performance etc have been given high priority.

Q) Whats the best way to learn around app health checkup, monitoring, code level performance checking. I can handle it myself and don't need anyone to guide me but need correct guidance as how and where to start.

Posted 9-Sep-15 5:12am

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Mehdi Gholam 9-Sep-15 11:41am

The best way is to do something.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Sep-15 13:36pm

This is true, but by far not enough. Please see Solution 1.
—SA

Richard MacCutchan 9-Sep-15 12:27pm

I can handle it myself and don't need anyone to guide me but need correct guidance as how and where to start.

Start by researching some documentation on things like "design principles, "application architecture" etc.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Sep-15 13:37pm

I don't think documentation along can change the state of affairs much; such problems are very difficult. Please see Solution 1.
—SA

Abhipal Singh 9-Sep-15 13:15pm

Google is your best friend!
I would suggest you to start with YouTube videos, they are pretty interesting and will not bore you and make you read a lot of text.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Sep-15 13:38pm

This is just not serious enough. Please see my other comments and Solution 1.
—SA

Abhipal Singh 9-Sep-15 13:47pm

Agree!

TechnologySplash 22-Sep-15 7:24am

Well I probably wrote it a bit wrongly and in a hurry which I shouldn't had.
When I said I can handle myself I didn't mean that I don't need any guidance from anyone. I always look forward to good people for their guidance as that is the best way to learn and grow in carrier.
"I dont rely on anyone.." - by this I meant that I dont need anyone to sit and teach me and I always try to do things myself first.
Also I am already doing lot of things myself. I just need guidance on the starting point for items like app health checkup and monitoring. These are generally done by non-dev teams but think these are few of the most important items...

Any help on these 2 specific items is greatly appreciated.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-09-09T07:36:00

Your request for guidance and "I don't need anyone to guide me" are in striking controversy. You need to decide for yourself: you either follow someone else's decisions, or take full responsibility for all the decisions, but then rely fully on yourself, don't expect any help. So far, I don't see that you have a right attitude to make a real designer and architect. At the same time, you may need to get a lot more experience to get such position; I just don't know.

I can tell you my impression: probably, you have been frustrated by bad design and architecture work from "anyone to guide" you. I assume that because this is a very usual big problem, but of course I cannot be 100% sure about your particular situation. But it does not mean that you are ready to take over yourself. Those capable of taking over usually find ways to push their decisions, even though it can be very difficult and can create conflicts of interests. More generally, if you are not ready to take conflicts of interests, you should forget about such positions.

It's possible that a good decision for you would be changing your job where you still work as a developers, but could enjoy better architecture and design which would satisfy your. If you succeed, you may get settled with that, or you could gradually move into the fields of architecture or design by suggesting some partial decisions of this level, some architectural or design elements, get them adopted, and this way earn trust in your team, which later can move you to the desired position. Remember, you cannot run without trust and against concensus, it would be way too hard to do, often impossible, and, if forced, get disastrous results. You really need to earn trust. And of course, if you work in a bad team (meaning, the team which can accept bad architecture or design), your prospects would be very bad; leaving such team would be the best.

—SA