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

APRIL 1, 2022

This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how how different domains connect to the business strategy. I’ve used it a few times now and it seems to have worked well so I thought it would be good to share.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 30, 2022

A Tech Stack is a set of tools developers use to build an app or any digital product like websites, software, and alike. It is a combination of programming languages, frameworks, libraries, patterns, servers, UI/UX solutions, software, and tools used by developers. But what is a tech stack? Finding a perfect tech stack is not easy.

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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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DZone

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

So far as building software architectures is what I have been doing for a living for years and years, I’m here to suggest a thing or two to those who aren’t certain if they need app scaling at all and which strategy to follow, if any. Hey, I’m Alex Shumski, Head of Presales at Symfa.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Domain message flow modelling is used for this step.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It fundamentally changes how teams and tools work together with a common goal: deliver software faster, more frequently and with a higher degree of quality. You’ll be introduced to modern software architecture concepts, containers, feature flags, CI/CD pipeline tools, container orchestration tools, runbook automation tools and much more.

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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. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today. As the 1990s business strategy sage M.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking. Business Model Role Shape boundaries based on role in the business model.

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 28, 2022

Teams need to be able to build and deploy software very easily. The Structure and Process Fallacy was originally published in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In summary, modernization was essential for the company to achieve its strategy in a competitive landscape. Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET) was originally published in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 29, 2020

Get a comprehensive overview and hands-on training on software architecture's many aspects. There is no single—or clearly defined—path to becoming a software architect. The sessions at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference reflect this fact. Fundamentals of software architecture (Mark Richards).

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Sequencing Architecture Modernization: Risk Averse vs Risk Tolerant was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. I appreciate all good-natured feedback and interactions.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Looking Ahead… Momentum is clearly building around the concept of value streams and the discipline of Value Stream Architecture.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture. I recommend using terminology to make levels of scale explicitly, like the levels of scale terminology from sociology , when discussing architecture: micro, meso, and macro levels of scale. Meso Domain ?—?an

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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. A clear warning sign.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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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

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. The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion. Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the Defining the core concepts Leveraged from the Hexagonal Architecture, the three main concepts that define our business logic are Entities , Repositories , and Interactors.

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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!” He had a strategy. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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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+%). Almost one-quarter (23%) of respondents work in the software industry ( Figure 3 ). Respondent Demographics.

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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. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age. Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change.

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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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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 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?” business, software, teams), it’s discovery structure. A: It depends what you mean by wrong.

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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. was originally published in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. For example, we can determine if an issue was caused by changes in our own software by the changes in our infrastructure configuration, or even by issues affecting third-party services that we utilize (such as CDNs).

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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

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons…. This technique plots the business differentiation and domain complexity of a business’s domains.

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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. Typically they deploy software once a quarter and love to have code freezes. Creating a shared dependency can boost the productivity of downstream teams.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Product Mode by Sriram Narayan Innovation Portfolio An innovation portfolio is invaluable because it expresses where products and platforms are in their lifecycle, revealing where each fits into the strategy. Essentially, this helps to see what’s important now and what the big bets for the future are.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The architecture of the software could be sliced up into a Leasing context and a Car Pool context. DDD Pattern: Library Contexts was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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