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.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. Dynamic applications with ephemeral services.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Use them as a starting point for design and discovery, and then bend them to your needs. If you’re not familiar with the Bounded Context Canvas it is a tool for visualising the key design choices of a Bounded Context or a sub-system in your software architecture. What happens if we explore the free design option?

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Microservices cons.

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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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cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In a later blog post, I discussed the Competing Consumer Pattern , which helps in scaling your applications by running multiple instances of a service, each of which act as a message consumer from the load-leveling queue. Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. primarily virtual?—?and

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Perhaps led by strong managers, they will fight vehemently for their work to be prioritised and software systems to be designed to their needs. This organisational pattern can be mirrored in the software architecture, emphasising the sociotechnical nature of systems. These concepts also apply to distributed architectures.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. The next step is to determine what Team Topology boundaries align to…what should Stream-aligned (and other) teams own?

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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. This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking. When designing socio-technical systems, we often want to show domains at different levels.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architecture in a Product-Oriented DevOps World was originally published in Nick Tune’s Strategic Technology Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We should be able to click a few buttons and get 100% accurate visualisations of the domain model, business processes, and architecture. A self-documenting architecture would reduce the learning curve. It would accentuate poor design choices and help us to make better ones. Let me know your thoughts on this topic.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. blog comments powered by Disqus. You can find the original here.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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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. For example, the first people forming the AMET come together and start defining the mission and targets.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It makes a lot of sense to organise teams around specific user journeys or user personas in order to design the optimal end-to-end experience. Check the Reviews team in the Org Design for Design Orgs example later in this article. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. There’s plenty still to think about.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The team can become a bottleneck for many other teams, and this design choice can be the result of elevated organisational politics. DDD Pattern: Library Contexts 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

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. But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? Another piece of design feedback is that we can’t replace the generic context with an off-the-shelf solution. How would you architect the solution? More importantly, how would you resolve this decision in the team?

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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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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Gateway Interchange Context Trade-offs Coupling and cohesion are the key factors in many design decisions, and the Gateway Interchange Context represents an explicit coupling trade-off. If a context like Geofencing needs location data, it should listen to events from the Location service and not receive the data directly from the GIC.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time. 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.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment 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. To get you started, you can find a collection of heuristics on my site.

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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!” Compliance doesn’t need to scary, stressed Levins.

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