Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The systems we build are composed of many pieces. How should we slice up the system and divide responsibilities among teams in our organisation? In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. From mobile apps, to domains, to user journeys.

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Architecture Design Mobile Systems 59

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All seven sessions and a Mainstage presentation will focus on helping organizations move successfully forward on this journey. Cloud-native software architectures provide the ability for deployment options , like Blue/Green, Canary, Dark Launches, and Feature Flagging – and make them easier.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Thoughtful and effective decision-making was a key trend at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019. The ability to make good decisions might be the most important aspect of a software architecture practitioner’s job. Every day.every week.every month, you make critical architectural decisions.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The applications must be integrated to the surrounding business systems so ideas can be tested and validated in the real world in a controlled manner. Today, a number of cloud-based, auto-scaling systems are easily available, such as AWS Batch. There are countless systems that can perform this task for small DAGs on a single server.

DevOps 137

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Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out. Kotlin’s type system eliminates the danger of null references from code.

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Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A typical user journey would include all the actions in a typical human user’s session using a website or application – the screens they are presented with, what objects they click on, and what screens and data payloads are returned. Distracted by distributed, dynamic architectures. The Intellyx Take.

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Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” The best place to start will depend on the goals of the workshops, who is present, and other factors.

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Software Architecture Architecture Design Software 52

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop. Maybe I can’t describe how I feel, but it’s just so different to a flat list of slides that all the popular presentation tools use. The system I use is to number my slides using the format {section number}.{slide

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Virtualization Software Architecture Architecture Games 52

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

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Software Engineering Design Engineering Software 80

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. Different parts of your system will change together at different times based on your business requirements. Shall we get a Viennetta ? That sounds good. with ice cream).

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Design Software Architecture Architecture Software 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers.

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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. System Role What is the role of a component in the system. I hope you find these variables useful.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. All Things Distributed.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

In distributed computer systems, Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a characteristic of a system that tolerates the class of failures known as the Byzantine Generals' Problem ; for which there is an unsolvability proof. Simply put, a Byzantine Fault is a fault that presents different symptoms to different observers. Atomic Broadcasts.

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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. An Example Gateway Interchange Context Consider a software system for remotely managing and monitoring devices.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? 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. Both a wide and deep knowledge of the business and domain is essential.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

The Symphonia

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We hope it will be one of the banner announcements at Andy’s or Werner’s keynotes, presented by Abby Fuller. Mike spoke on “Introducing Serverless to your Organization” as a keynote at O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Europe (video here ?—?Safari Adding new replicas on-the-fly to DynamoDB global tables.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Software Architecture 40

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? It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Which one is correct?

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Architecture Design Engineering Best Practices 40

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. But it comes with the overheads of having to find a time where everybody can be present and not working.

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Efficiency Speed Innovation Transportation 40

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

In a small system this may be a table in a central relational database, but it’s best setup as a NoSQL data source using something like Amazon DynamoDB or Apache Cassandra, with a caching client library or at large scale a microservice data access layer. You need an “abtest” database service.

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Testing Tuning Database Cache 52

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. We identified 671 duplicate items between systems, saving 4,750 hours of unnecessary work.

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