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.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. All architecture decisions are ultimately driven by a company’s business model, so I think this is a sensible starting point. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Performance-as-a-self-service .

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. Low Hanging Fruit vs Last Toothpaste in the Tube In the dream scenario, there is an area of the architecture which has a high value to the business when modernized and has little complexity. In the Architecture Modernization Sequencing Grid, this is the bottom right corner.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Problem, Strategy, and Solution Spaces To gain clarity on the terminology, it’s helpful to describe the various activities involved in building a product, which can then be grouped into buckets like problem and solution space or something else.

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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. Design review is basically a code review but for architecture.

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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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Tech News Gather

MARCH 30, 2022

It requires considerate analysis of the business objectives, devising steps and constructing software architecture. In her current position, she describes herself as a chief marketer and focuses her talents on creating value for customers through content development, social strategy, thought leadership, and more.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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. Do you want to keep using a replacement strategy with huge downtimes while you bring up your new application? What does an ACL look like?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

Leveraging Hexagonal Architecture We needed to support the ability to swap data sources without impacting business logic , so we knew we needed to keep them decoupled. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture.

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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.

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

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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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Strategic Tech

JUNE 28, 2022

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. Do you have any experience of overcoming the structure and process fallacy?

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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.

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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. I’m looking at this challenge from multiple angles, and one of them is figuring out the key information I need. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al.

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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 18, 2021

Other Types of Domains Here are some examples of other types of domain: Enterprise Architecture Domains : Business, Data, Architecture, and Technology Cynefin Domains : Obvious, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, Disorder Levels of Scale The word domain can also be problematic when the level of scale is not easy to implicitly determine from the context.

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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

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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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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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Interestingly, multi-cloud, or the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single homogeneous network architecture, had the fewest users (24% of the respondents). In other words, comparatively few respondent organizations appear to be pursuing dedicated multi-cloud strategies. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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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

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

JULY 18, 2018

If we align our software architecture and teams with these enduring business capabilities, theoretically we’ll have stable, long-term boundaries within which to create sustainable software and minimal dependencies between the teams that run them. frontend, backend, DBAs).

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion. Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle In Wardley’s Strategy Cycle, there are the following elements (with my simplified definitions): Purpose : what is the problem being solved / goal to be achieved in our domain(s) of interest?

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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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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. He laid out a mission.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries. In DDD a bounded context is an independent, loosely-coupled architectural component.

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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. And it also engaged with the performance community as a whole, for example by attending conferences, bringing in domain experts, and studying up on modern architectures such as the Jamstack. Measuring And Monitoring.

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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?” I find that the more details added when fleshing out the domain (e.g. This is quite a big topic.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Rethinking Domain, Software, and Team Boundaries As organizations grow, the structures and practices that helped them to be effective at one scale hinder them at another scale. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way. It’s a sign of both success and ambition.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture. Being aware of the patterns inherent to layered sociotechnical architectures can save you a lot of pain and politics in the long-term. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?—?teams

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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. Creating a shared dependency can boost the productivity of downstream teams. Can consumers refuse to migrate? Should We Create a Shared Service?

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