ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. These priorities tend to push the architecture to the back burner.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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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. Who to invite? I recommend organising attendees into groups of 4–5 people.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve heard the opinion from many technical leaders that it is reasonable to expect a new hire to take upto 6 months to learn about the code, the domain, and the architecture before they become fully productive. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. When organising technology teams to build digital products and services, it is necessary to determine which parts of the product, user experience, and technology each team owns. The answer is all of them.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture.

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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. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. We can now start to slice and group those architectural pieces into team-sized chunks and analyse the trade-offs of each pattern, and explore contexts in which they might be applicable.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They’re fun, but I don’t find them a good source of insight into what’s happening in technology. However, discussion of regulation will be a major pastime of the chattering classes, and major technology companies (and venture capital firms) will be maneuvering to ensure that regulation benefits them. How will this affect technology?

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. The fourth part of the narrative is doctrine.

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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. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This combination of usage and search affords a contextual view that encompasses not only the tools, techniques, and technologies that members are actively using, but also the areas they’re gathering information about. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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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. Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. Field is most often used to designate a domain of professional specialization. I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ). Jump to table of contents ?. Measuring And Monitoring.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

While MVPs have been mainstream for a long time, the concept of Value Streams and Value Stream Architecture is still in the early adopter phase in the DevOps world. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Use them as a starting point for design and discovery, and then bend them to your needs. If you’re not familiar with the Bounded Context Canvas it is a tool for visualising the key design choices of a Bounded Context or a sub-system in your software architecture. What happens if we explore the free design option?

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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. Domains are part of the logical architecture of a business.

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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. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. We imagine that companies in the software industry are more likely to be early (or mid-stage) adopters of technologies like cloud computing.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like? All ML projects are software projects. Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code.

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

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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. This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking. When designing socio-technical systems, we often want to show domains at different levels.

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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?” The high-level structure is not design structure (e.g. Q: What is a domain landscape?

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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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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

This has to do with the concept of bounded context from Domain Driven Design.). I do think that Agile, as described in the Manifesto, points to a number of problems that persist in software development, and offers plausible solutions. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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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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