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. It’s more of an attempt to improve collaboration and design culture.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Some teams have complicated branching and testing processes which need accentuating, especially when legacy systems are involved or deploying to app stores. The details can vary quite a lot.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. We need a model that describes the different elements of a system that a team could own. I’m not precious about any of the definition used in this article.

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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

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. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop. How we prepared the room at NDC Porto just before the workshop started The workshop involves reviewing pre-made canvases and identifying design problems and suggesting improvements. albeit a few annoyances, too.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” The high-level structure is not design structure (e.g. Q: What is a domain landscape?

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. This is my tailored view of it; others will have different definitions. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. Group Patterns The following list is as a sample of archetypical patterns rather than a definitive list. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The key to loose coupling is to understand how the system you are building is going to change, and minimising the cost of those changes. Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it?

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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. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Definitely not.

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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. Software Architecture. The new category is often called MLOps.

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