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. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences.

Architecture 98

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They’re fun, but I don’t find them a good source of insight into what’s happening in technology. However, discussion of regulation will be a major pastime of the chattering classes, and major technology companies (and venture capital firms) will be maneuvering to ensure that regulation benefits them. How will this affect technology?

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Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Design review is basically a code review but for architecture.

Design 52

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

First, the behavior of an AI application depends on a model , which is built from source code and training data. A model isn’t source code, and it isn’t data; it’s an artifact built from the two. This means that, to have a history of how an application was developed, you have to look at more than the source code.

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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. Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations.

Strategy 97

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ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A new software architecture for streaming analytics based on the concept of real-time digital twins can address these challenges and add significant capabilities to telematics systems. This new, object-oriented software technique provides a memory-based orchestration framework for tracking and analyzing telemetry from each data source.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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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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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last week I spoke with Carlota Perez , who is currently researching the historical context of each of the five technological revolutions summarized in Project to Product. But it is time for us to move beyond manufacturing analogies, and to craft a new narrative for this next phase of the Age of Software.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Consider Log4Shell, a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library. Log4j is a ubiquitous software code in various consumer-facing products and services. Modern observability technologies have helped enterprises identify software vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell in their environments.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. 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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Dynatrace news. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

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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.

Software Architecture 134

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, a recent global survey of 700 CIOs found that 86% of companies are now using cloud-native technologies and platforms, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containers, to accelerate innovation and stay competitive. Debug systems, isolate bottlenecks, and resolve code-level performance issues.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Dynatrace news. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

Serverless 141

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 141

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, a recent global survey of 700 CIOs found that 86% of companies are now using cloud-native technologies and platforms, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containers, to accelerate innovation and stay competitive. Debug systems, isolate bottlenecks, and resolve code-level performance issues.

Infrastructure 146

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring Metrics 146

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As the pace of business quickens, software development has adapted. Increasingly, teams release software features more quickly to accommodate customer needs. As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. What is monolithic architecture?

Architecture 193

Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming 193

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ).

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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

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. A clear warning sign.

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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!” I was like, “Wow! What’s next? He had a strategy.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Writing code for one vendor platform does not make it portable or simple to move elsewhere.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As Steve Jobs wisely said, Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s Thinking In my view, technology executives and engineering leaders are overly obsessed with the Spotify model. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. And there lies the problem.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

However there’s still the question of how much behavior should go in API GW vs. in Lambda code?—?this two ideas that I think are very useful when we’re using technology as rapidly deployable as Serverless ones. AWS API Gateway , and its associated tooling, has got much, much better. Finally, of course, there’s the community section.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death.

Software Architecture 52

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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. Consumer expectations are in a constant state of flux as new technological advancements arise and new competitors emerge, yet the goal is to continuously deliver products that satisfy market demand.

Design 40

Design Architecture Software Architecture Systems 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering One exciting thing about the total nature of this technology?—?because

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Agile is not, and never was, about getting developers to write software faster. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. This is important. Neckbeards? Geeks and nerds?

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons…. This technique plots the business differentiation and domain complexity of a business’s domains.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

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. — It’s not possible to give each small team their own copy of the model as a basis for designing their architecture.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A taste of what’s to come at Perform 2020’s “Release Better Software Faster” track – we highlighted what you can expect to learn about best practices for sessions 1 – 4 at Perform 2020. NoOps: Reaching zero-incident prod through auto-remediation-as-code. Dynatrace news. In Part 1 of this blog series – Getting ready!

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