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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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. The same mindset should also be applied to architecture; involve the whole team and challenge the small details.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change. As our legacy systems become less maintainable the negative spiral begins: the code is hard to evolve, nobody enjoys working on it, features take ages to deliver, politics ramp up…. We can use design systems , for instance.

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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. look for key business events which indicate state changes between different parts of the business process. There is no shortcut to identifying good boundaries.

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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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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. So once a certain level of performance is achieved, we want to be able to preserve it without being constantly required to invest additional effort, or slow down the development process. The Wix Challenge.

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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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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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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. Having our core logic isolated means we can easily change data source details without a significant impact or major code rewrites to the codebase.

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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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