"Scientists discovered this funky, yellow, single-celled organism is pretty good at making decisions. What they did was they placed food sources in locations relative to cities around Tokyo, and then added slime molds to see what would happen. The slime molds spread out, and they detected locally for nutrients, repellents, making local decisions about which direction they would go in search of food next."
"We had manual deployment, so we were manually deploying our solution with Windows installers, copying files, prone to error, manual changes to environments. Ultimately, it meant a slow lead time. We were going into 3-month to 6-month release cycles, UAT, cycles of bug fixing, and we just weren't delivering any value to our customers. We set out on a goal. Our goal was to re-architect to a cloud-native SaaS platform and adopt some modern engineering practices."
Physarum polycephalum (slime mold) forms efficient networks by detecting local nutrients and repellents and making decentralized decisions, sometimes producing structures comparable to human-designed systems. A legacy software solution with mixed .NET versions, scattered libraries, and manual Windows-based deployments created error-prone releases and long lead times. The development process resulted in three-to-six-month release cycles with repeated UAT and bug-fix loops that failed to deliver regular customer value. The team set a goal to re-architect into a cloud-native SaaS platform and adopt modern engineering practices, using collaborative pairing and guidance to drive architectural change.
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