Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. Group Patterns The following list is as a sample of archetypical patterns rather than a definitive list. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Product Taxonomy Products and Platforms are the components of a business’s architecture that I find the most interesting and revealing, so my template starts with a Product Taxonomy section. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al. s suggested product taxonomy It’s not mandatory to use these definitions.

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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. It’s a shame not to use physical space when in-person, so I think we definitely need to encourage more of this in future workshops. Smartphones definitely won’t be suitable for that. slide number}.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). It is less concerned with formal definitions 2 and captures the point-in-time totality of cloud adoption.

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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 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. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. E.g. Genesis, commodity.

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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?” At Google, search and advertising may be two of the major domains of interest in their landscape.

Software Architecture 52

Software Architecture Architecture Design Software 52

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?

Software Architecture 58

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The key to loose coupling is to understand how the system you are building is going to change, and minimising the cost of those changes. 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?

Architecture 98

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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

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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. Consider the scenario: an in-house notifications system is to be replaced by an off-the-shelf solution. It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Definitely not. generic).

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