O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 12, 2018

2018 marks the fourth year of O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference , a software engineering event focused on providing hands-on training experiences for technologists at all levels of an organization—from experienced developers up through CTOs. Building evolutionary software architecture.

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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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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Here is the definition of this model: ?. Try it today using Keptn .

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Python libraries are no less useful for manipulating or engineering data, too.).

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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. There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. 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. The details can vary quite a lot. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

If I can capture key information earlier, that gives me a good understanding of key elements of the business’s architecture, we can get to valuable conversations sooner. Most companies have their own language for talking about products, platforms, systems, value streams and so on. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

OS X, which used to trumpet “It just works,” has evolved to “it used to just work”; the most user-centric Unix-like system ever built now staggers under the load of new and poorly thought-out features. Most professional programmers work on large systems that can consist of thousands of functions and millions of lines of code.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. But given the hundreds of pods and processes in modern systems, these errors might not be logically connected. Precise, AI-powered anomaly root-cause determination based on automatic log analysis and custom user-defined events.

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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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ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Real-Time Digital Twins Can Add Important New Capabilities to Telematics Systems and Eliminate Scalability Bottlenecks. However, telematics architectures face challenges in responding to telemetry in real time. Current Telematics Architecture. Challenges for Current Architectures.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Several years ago, many companies experimented with microservices but had doubts about the operational complexity and engineering maturity required to achieve success. The O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference tracks microservices, and we periodically check in with practitioners to see how it’s being implemented in the real world.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Increase quality and agility with load & performance engineering as a self-service. Cloud-native software architectures provide the ability for deployment options , like Blue/Green, Canary, Dark Launches, and Feature Flagging – and make them easier. A quick review of the sessions: How to transform into a NoOps organization.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. But given the hundreds of pods and processes in modern systems, these errors might not be logically connected. Precise, AI-powered anomaly root-cause determination based on automatic log analysis and custom user-defined events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. This would be a significant departure from its existing policy based system.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). . • More than half of respondent organizations use microservices. Respondent Demographics.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

Machine language is reserved for a few people who need to work on some specialized areas of operating system internals, or who need to write some kinds of embedded systems code. A book about prompt engineering for DALL-E already exists; in a way, that’s trying to reverse-engineer a formal language for generating images.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s like working with the code without writing it.nnUnfortunately, I know multiple very senior engineers who really like to go with “fire, aim, ready” approach. nn> MonitoringnnWe (humans) are terrible at imagining all possible permutations of the system with billions and billions of possible states. However, it’s not a unit test.

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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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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Second, the behavior of AI systems changes over time. Charity Majors’ emphasis on cardinality and inferring the internal states of a system from its outputs is certainly the right direction in which to be looking, but in AI systems, the number of internal states grows by many, many orders of magnitude.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0, At least once?

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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.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The language, practices, and tools of cloud native architecture are prominent in Velocity Berlin proposals. Architects, engineers, and developers are using new tools, metrics, and even new concepts, to observe, manage, and optimize performance. Site reliability engineering (SRE) is growing. 2), cloud native is coming on strong.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It’s extremely frustrating as an engineer to work on something which is cancelled and to switch focus to something else. 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.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Coca-Cola engineered a replacement product that consumers rated superior to both the classic Coke product and Pepsi. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2. They engineered a superior product. IBM rolled the dice that it could achieve not just market primacy, but market dominance.

Hardware 52

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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. 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).

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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. Take a look at the following checklist and the example patterns and I’m sure you’re more likely to architect better systems in the future. What do you think?

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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

CIO: “I hear that the bottleneck is in our legacy systems, or our needing more developers, or issues with our culture. Bottlenecks from internal processes and a dated software architecture severely affected morale. You can’t change the system from within the system. Me: “So where is your bottleneck?

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing. Comments ().

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. An Example Gateway Interchange Context Consider a software system for remotely managing and monitoring devices.

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