Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams. 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.

Architecture 64

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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

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.

Software Architecture 59

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?

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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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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

Design 40

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. It can guid you through your first few cycles of discovery, strategy, and implementation and then you’ll be in a good place to guide yourself.

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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. Take a look at the following checklist and the example patterns and I’m sure you’re more likely to architect better systems in the future.

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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.

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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. Along with tangled code, this could mean a large scale coordination across many teams if the notifications approach changes. It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Definitely not.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Teams will synchronise frequently in order to determine: Where are the boundaries in the system and which team will own which pieces? Scenario 4: Coupled by Legacy Systems Even in established organisations, the vision of highly-autonomous teams iterating at a high-speed with high alignment efficiency cannot always be realised.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. We have to specify with great precision in code exactly what our business rules are, and the computer will apply them exactly as we tell it to. Consider the scenario of an appointment scheduling system for a healthcare practice. the transaction?—?will

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Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

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. He had a strategy. Photo credit: @DOES_USA. Obtaining the funding to spearhead your product ambitions.

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