Architecture, Software Architecture and Software Engineering

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

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. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery.

Software Engineering

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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.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

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.

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

Engineering well-rounded technology leaders

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.

Technology

Technology Technology Engineering Software Architecture

O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

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.

Serverless

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure

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

Architecture

Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy

AI meets operations

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Collaboration between AI developers and operations teams will lead to growing pains on both sides, especially since many data scientists and AI researchers have had limited exposure to, or knowledge of, software engineering. O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference , San Jose, March 15-18.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Monitoring Software Engineering Architecture

Visualising Sociotechnical Architecture with DDD and Team Topologies

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

Architecture Strategy Design Software Architecture

Analyzing Software Failure on the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter

cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

million on this mission and have the probe crash into the Martian atmosphere because two teams of software engineers, who both wrote great code, did not communicate together and did not follow specifications. An erroneous trajectory was computed using this incorrect data. What a blow to space exploration it was to have spent $327.6

Software

Software Software Programming Software Engineering

MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

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. Software Architecture. This approach is not novel.

DevOps

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From Domains to Value Streams

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. I believe it originated in Lean Manufacturing in the 70s or 80s.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Architecture DevOps Software

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much.

Open Source

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy

Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

The engineering organisation described may not work for you because of a team of 8-10 people is still a very big overhead. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering? Probably yes.

Engineering

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare

Cloud Adoption in 2020

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 ). For this audience, SRE’s future is brighter than AI’s, however. Respondent Demographics.

Cloud

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much.

Open Source

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy

Re-Architecting the Video Gatekeeper

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Old Gatekeeper Architecture This model had several problems associated with it: This process was completely I/O bound and put a lot of load on upstream systems. New Gatekeeper Architecture With this model, liveness evaluation is conceptually separated from the data retrieval from upstream systems.

Cache

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering

The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

And of course, when you need to choose the most suitable design, The 5 Primary Heuristics of Sociotechnical Architecture will help you to identify the optimal solution for your business needs. Before committing to a design choice, sketch out all of the possible ways of grouping a concept.

Design

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

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. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. It doesn’t need to be a choice of one over the other.

Innovation

Innovation Speed Google Strategy

Uncovering Hidden Business Rules with DDD Aggregates

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

Healthcare

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

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

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

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O’Reilly serverless survey 2019: Concerns, what works, and what to expect

Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

AI meets operations

Visualising Sociotechnical Architecture with DDD and Team Topologies

Analyzing Software Failure on the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter

MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

From Domains to Value Streams

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Cloud Adoption in 2020

Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

Re-Architecting the Video Gatekeeper

The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

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

Uncovering Hidden Business Rules with DDD Aggregates

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