Architecture, Design, Innovation and Software Architecture

The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? A software system is a model of a domain.

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Microservices vs. monolithic architecture: Understanding the difference

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. What is monolithic architecture?

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Legacy Architecture Modernisation With Strategic Domain-Driven Design

Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

Architecture

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10 talks to look for at the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London

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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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. Centralized applications.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be useful, have utility.

Strategy

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Another hurdle to decision making is when technology leaders feel that the skills needed to deliver big changes don’t exist within the organization like the lack of DDD, architecture, or cloud skills. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

Strategy

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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. An AMET is an architecture Enabling Team that helps to coordinate and upskill all teams and stakeholders involved in a modernization initiative. The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases.

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Fundamentals of software architecture

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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The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

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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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Platforms provide the foundation for higher levels of innovation. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. An example of a Domain Group A domain group is an internal service provider, exposing domain data and business process operations to experience-layer groups or other domain groups.

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Tasktop Viz launch – DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 – Day Two Recap

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!” Compliance doesn’t need to scary, stressed Levins.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model.

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Remote-optimised Domain Modelling: The Present and Future

Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. 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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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

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Should We Create a Shared Service? A Decision-making Checklist

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. But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision.

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Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment

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. When attempting to explore innovation opportunities, the need for urgent alignment is greater.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems

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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