I've found over the years that Martin Fowler blogs about things the C-Suite is already doing at their companies, and they use this as validation for their choices. This in turn has a virtuous cycle of keeping him popular.
Almost everything he hawks causes misery for software developers, like his whole multi-year spin for Microservices, he's turned refactoring into a fetish (honestly there are people at my dayjob who have been "refactoring" the entire 3 years i've been here) and now hes blogged multiple times about platform teams - which - having been on one - don't work. I see him as a very damaging character.
Well intentioned, i'm sure, but I don't think he has good ideas.
Almost everything he hawks causes misery for software developers, like his whole multi-year spin for Microservices, he's turned refactoring into a fetish (honestly there are people at my dayjob who have been "refactoring" the entire 3 years i've been here) and now hes blogged multiple times about platform teams - which - having been on one - don't work. I see him as a very damaging character.
Well intentioned, i'm sure, but I don't think he has good ideas.