Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Domains are synonymous with business capabilities from the business architecture world. The answer is all of them.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In a later blog post, I discussed the Competing Consumer Pattern , which helps in scaling your applications by running multiple instances of a service, each of which act as a message consumer from the load-leveling queue. Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. Business opportunity : the primary reason for the modernization.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. What is monolithic architecture?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 9, 2020

If you want to get started with Strategic DDD to gain deeper insights into your domain and to align your software architecture with your domain, you can use this Miro board: [link] No sign up, installation, or payment is required to view the board. In order to use the tools you will need to copy them onto a board of your own.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. Centralized applications. Read eBook now!

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Use them as a starting point for design and discovery, and then bend them to your needs. If you’re not familiar with the Bounded Context Canvas it is a tool for visualising the key design choices of a Bounded Context or a sub-system in your software architecture. What happens if we explore the free design option?

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking. When designing socio-technical systems, we often want to show domains at different levels.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries. In DDD a bounded context is an independent, loosely-coupled architectural component.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. blog comments powered by Disqus. You can find the original here.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture. Being aware of the patterns inherent to layered sociotechnical architectures can save you a lot of pain and politics in the long-term. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?—?teams

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” Compliance doesn’t need to scary, stressed Levins.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? Which one is correct? How would you architect the solution?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. I call this pattern The Gateway Interchange Context. The GIC is also risky in that business rules could start to creep in.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ll show you some example scenarios to help you understand this concept, and I’ll demonstrate sociotechnical architecture patterns you can apply in your organisation to optimise your alignment efficiency. To address this challenge, I’d like to introduce you to the concept of Alignment Efficiency.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time. If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. We can now start to slice and group those architectural pieces into team-sized chunks and analyse the trade-offs of each pattern, and explore contexts in which they might be applicable.

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