About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 The Martian Principles
Principle 1 Don’t reinvent the wheel
Principle 2 You won’t do better than what’s already been done
Principle 3 Your customers don’t know what they want
Principle 4 Get something working as soon as possible
Principle 5 Use sound software engineering practices
Principle 6 Don’t trust the client applications
Principle 7 Plan to make changes
Principle 8 You can’t predict the future
Principle 9 Don’t tie your services into knots
Principle 10 Build early, build often!
Principle 11 “What middleware?” should be your greatest compliment
Principle 12 Expose the invisible
Principle 13 Log everything
Principle 14 Know the data
Principle 15 Know when it will break
Principle 16 Don’t fail due to unexpected success
Principle 17 Strong leadership drives a project to success
Principle 18 Don’t ignore people issues
Principle 19 Software engineering is all about the D’s
Principle 20 The formulas for success aren’t complicated
Index