O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem. That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. Anyone who works in programming has seen the source code for some project evolve from something short, sweet, and clean to a seething mass of bits. Controlling complexity is.”

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

Designing the prompts to get DALL-E to do something extraordinary requires a new kind of technique that’s very different from understanding pigments and brushes. GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes.

Programming 105

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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.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve heard the opinion from many technical leaders that it is reasonable to expect a new hire to take upto 6 months to learn about the code, the domain, and the architecture before they become fully productive. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. The example I see most often is complex manual processes ( Operational Complexity ) involving multiple people, excel spreadsheets, and a variety of tools.

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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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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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IoT Ecommerce Analytics Latency 40

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." This is supported in real terms through standards and consistent application of conventions, both in the information architecture (i.e., It must be useful, have utility. Solid doesn't mean inflexible.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases.

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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.

Design 40

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. The steps can be arbitrary Python code. both for compute and storage.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, let’s take a deeper look into the actions and processes we put in place in order to achieve these significant results. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. In other words, we needed to find a way to automate the process of preventing performance degradations.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

DevOps 138

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. A key observation was that most of our data scientists had nothing against writing Python code. The steps can be arbitrary Python code. both for compute and storage.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

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

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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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. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. Certainly not.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture.

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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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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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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Recent Entries.

Technology 151

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

When a project is going off track because some requirement wasn’t understood properly, you need to fix that as soon as possible—not after a year-long development process. It’s not about getting software developers to write code faster. This has to do with the concept of bounded context from Domain Driven Design.).

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. We have to specify with great precision in code exactly what our business rules are, and the computer will apply them exactly as we tell it to. But there is a problem?

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

If information is less essential and does not require immediate processing to avoid teams becoming unaligned, the overheads of INSB alignment can be inefficient. When the information is essential to alignment and is urgently required to be acted upon, INSB alignment is ideal.

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