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Rather than looking just at the KPIs as figures perhaps we could suggest to the terms as well to track a trend of changes of particular metrics in a set...

stefaniuk

This quality framework is concerned with "rapid and safe delivery of high-quality software, at scale". All types of engineering are influenced by human factors. I would argue that these human...

arctangent

Open source / inner source

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Can we have some guidance around where open source should be used, and at a minimum we should be practicing "inner source". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source I often find myself having to ask...

mikemonteith

Security and cloud roles

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One consideration you might like to document is that when using **_cloud native_** services to deploy your infrastructure you have an additional security benefit in that the role which has...

paulalex

Add example implementations (as podcasts)

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Add real NHSD examples to some of the principles, including: 1. Cross-region SQL server on Azure (CB) 2. Active/active Postgres read-replicas on AWS (DS) 3. Ephemeral EC2 on AWS (NL)...

andyblundell

In 'Build Quality In' is says 'Three amigos analysis and elaboration to ensure requirements are fully understood at the point the work will be done." This is good, however I...

ClareYoungman

Some references to example cloud platform services which currently use AWS examples could be replaced or augmented with other examples, primarily from Azure.

ivorc

Serverless is harder to test

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Regarding: https://github.com/NHSDigital/software-engineering-quality-framework/blob/master/practices/cloud-services.md Ref: "Prefer serverless platform as a service (PaaS) over infrastructure as a service (IaaS)" I think it is important to recognise that serverless architecture is a good example...

arctangent

Cloud neutral?

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Regarding https://github.com/NHSDigital/software-engineering-quality-framework/blob/master/patterns/outsource-bottom-up.md Ref: "Cloud native vs cloud agnostic" I think you are very slightly implying cloud neutrality in this section but I don't think it would hurt to be more...

arctangent

Added architecture-patterns.md

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Added architecture-patterns to reinforce the pattern of outsource bottom up.

TimCoates