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. A clear warning sign.

Architecture 64

Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture 64

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More than a fifth of the respondents work in the software industry—skewing results toward the concerns of software companies, and helping explain the preponderance of those with software engineering roles. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Concluding thoughts.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

Cache 183

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

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).

Design 40

Design Software Architecture Architecture Software 40

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+%). For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics. 3 But which cloud?

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Store engineering squad - focus on software and systems required for the storefront including point-of-sales system, promotions, etc. ERP engineering squad - supply chain planning, purchase order management, product lifecycle management, merchandise planning, etc. You want to move fast. How is that even possible?

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

According to this report, the primary cause of this failure was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units. An erroneous trajectory was computed using this incorrect data.

Software 73

Software Software Programming Software Engineering 73

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. The new category is often called MLOps. This approach is not novel.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Transactional & Invariant Business Rules To enforce business rules in software systems, transactional boundaries need to be identified: which business rules must succeed or fail together.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10