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. It can guid you through your first few cycles of discovery, strategy, and implementation and then you’ll be in a good place to guide yourself.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 28, 2022

But without investment in strong technical practices that keep code healthy and evolvable, you will never be able to go fast, regardless of how teams are organized. Teams need to be able to build and deploy software very easily. No organisation structure can compensate for a poor Developer Experience.

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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. One final point to remember: the goal of the workshop is to produce options and develop the ability to product better options in the future.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Maintaining development velocity. And the last thing we want is to negatively impact our developers’ momentum, or our ability to release new features at a high rate. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the

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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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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

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. But, the over-focus on micro has detracted from the true benefits of microservices which are about improving the quality and speed of development. Domains are part of the logical architecture of a business. So changing the name will have a significant impact.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. anemic domains and envious consumers.

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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. Typically they deploy software once a quarter and love to have code freezes. Creating a shared dependency can boost the productivity of downstream teams.

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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. Whenever a team starts on a piece of work they should own all of the code and infrastructure that needs to change in order to deliver the work.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. The first developer proposes a push model: bounded contexts should instruct the notifications context to send a notification. Which one is correct?

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

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