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. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. performance, security) UX / Brand Perception: design decisions which have an impact on how users experience the system I’ve recently been collating some of the variables which exist in each of these areas, and they are presented in the remainder of this article.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? How much will modernizing this area of the architecture allow you to improve developer productivity? Thanks for reading my article.

Architecture 52

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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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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Fast forward to two years later and the article has had more than half a million visits, regularly appears in the top five Google search results for “Serverless”, and helped launched Symphonia ?—?my The fundamental structure of the article hasn’t changed?—?clearly I also wrote an article on just this area last year.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. As mentioned in our previous article, we recommend a name that reflects the team’s purpose and area of responsibility.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. In this article I’ve been referring to what Emily Peterson refers to as Development Value Streams. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

Software Architecture 98

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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. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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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?” business, software, teams), it’s discovery structure. Check out my presentations and articles.

Software Architecture 52

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Don't be trapped by dogma A lot has been said and written about why something worked for Spotify may not apply to your organisation, and the purpose of this article is not to go in those discussions but to highlight practical issues with these models. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies.

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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. In this article, I’m going to provide working definitions of those concepts and clear them up. Thank you to all involved.

Design 98

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

I read an article on the death of Agile. It’s not the first article I’ve seen claiming that Agile is dead, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. Agile is not, and never was, about getting developers to write software faster. It’s not about getting software developers to write code faster. Neckbeards?

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

In this article we’ll take a look at what’s possible now, in the near future and the distant future. In Dan North’s exceptional talk How to Break the Rules , which has influenced my thinking enormously, he quotes Eli Goldratt: Technology can bring benefits if, and only if, it diminishes a limitation. —

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Later sections of this article look at domain ownership and hybrid patterns. A multi product variant team owns multiple product variants In order to own more of the architecture, a team needs some way to manage the additional effort. An alternative option is to maximise reuse using technologies like Flutter.

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