Architecture, Software, 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. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Design Engineering 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

Analyzing Software Failure on the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter

cdemi

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Because of software error, the spacecraft encountered Mars at a lower than anticipated altitude and disintegrated due to atmospheric stresses. In this example, we can clearly see the huge impact of developing software without good specifications, requirement and guidelines can have. Rocket science is hard, but communication is harder.

Software

Software Software Programming Software Engineering

AI meets operations

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

And conversely, if you need software with that kind of accuracy (for example, a billing application), you shouldn’t be using AI. How do we test software whose behavior is fundamentally probabilistic? We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference , New York, February 23-26.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Monitoring Software Engineering Architecture

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

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

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

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. All ML projects are software projects.

DevOps

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source

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. High levels of WIP in a team are an indication that cognitive load is too high?

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Architecture DevOps Software

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. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.

Serverless

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure

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

Warehouse engineering squad - managing software services related inventory, stocktake, dispatch, allocation, transfer, robotics, etc. Customer experience engineering squad - focus on end-to-end customer life-cycle, marketing, targeting, personalisation, loyalty, etc. You want to move fast. How is that even possible?

Engineering

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare

Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). Almost one-quarter (23%) of respondents work in the software industry ( Figure 3 ). 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

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.

Design

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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

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

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

Healthcare

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software

Technology Performance Pulse

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

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

Trending Sources

Engineering well-rounded technology leaders

Analyzing Software Failure on the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter

AI meets operations

Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

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

Visualising Sociotechnical Architecture with DDD and Team Topologies

MLOps and DevOps: Why Data Makes It Different

From Domains to Value Streams

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

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

The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

Re-Architecting the Video Gatekeeper

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

Uncovering Hidden Business Rules with DDD Aggregates

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