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. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

This notion has been reinforced through four decades of work in computer architecture and software after it was first driven home to me by a luminary in computer architecture at Intel Corporation, the late George Cox. These priorities tend to push the architecture to the back burner. This is the case with digital twins.

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DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

This notion has been reinforced through four decades of work in computer architecture and software after it was first driven home to me by a luminary in computer architecture at Intel Corporation, the late George Cox. These priorities tend to push the architecture to the back burner. This is the case with digital twins.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? 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. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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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. Machine language is reserved for a few people who need to work on some specialized areas of operating system internals, or who need to write some kinds of embedded systems code.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Will we see more countries and states develop privacy regulations? They formed an OpenTF consortion and forked the last open source version of Terraform, renaming it OpenTofu; OpenTofu was quickly adopted under the Linux Foundation’s mantle, and appears to have significant traction among developers. The EU has lead with GDPR.

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cdemi

MAY 6, 2016

I have decided to write a series on some common and modern Design Patterns that are useful in today's horizontally scalable (such as cloud-hosted) applications. The Competing Consumer Pattern enables a system to process multiple messages concurrently to optimize throughput, to improve scalability and availability.

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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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cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Control Costs : You don't have to design your service to meet peak load, but rather average load. In a later blog post, I discussed the Competing Consumer Pattern , which helps in scaling your applications by running multiple instances of a service, each of which act as a message consumer from the load-leveling queue. Considerations.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. Systems are getting more complex yet our ability to understand them doesn’t seem to be growing at the same rate. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it.

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Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

Kotlin’s type system eliminates the danger of null references from code. Extension Functions Kotlin provides you the ability to extend an existing class with new functionality without having to inherit from the class or use any kind of design pattern such as Decorator. In Java, this is known as NullPointerException or NPE.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Elements of Design. At C++ and Beyond next week (and in December) I’ll also be giving a brand-new half-day talk on Elements of Design. Although those areas are pretty diverse, they also have a lot of commonalities, and the insights and learnings apply directly to mainstream classes-and-libraries production software design.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Start by mapping out the current state of your domains If you’re not sure what your domains are, I have created a Strategic DDD Kata which provides a scenario for you to practice designing domain boundaries. The future automated process needs to be carefully designed, not just a a copy of the existing manual process.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. What was problematic about this design?

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

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cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

In distributed computer systems, Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a characteristic of a system that tolerates the class of failures known as the Byzantine Generals' Problem ; for which there is an unsolvability proof. Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance.

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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. There’s plenty of security risks for business executives, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, etc., to be wary of.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. Dynamic applications with ephemeral services.

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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. Easier to develop.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. However, the concept is quite abstract.

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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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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. They often compete with product/feature development work, resulting in them falling flat and failing to deliver the promised business benefits that triggered them.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

We had an interesting challenge on our hands: we needed to build the core of our app from scratch, but we also needed data that existed in many different systems. The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. We treat it as an input for our system.

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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. We give no guidance here.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. An abstract example of a high-level value stream for a single development team A value stream at the level of detail above isn’t particularly useful. The details can vary quite a lot.

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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. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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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.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Building on the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern , the Competing Consumer Pattern enables a system to process multiple messages concurrently to optimize throughput, to improve scalability and availability, and to balance the workload. To handle this fluctuating workload, the system can run multiple instances of the consumer service.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

It seems to us that the results of our survey offer a point-in-time snapshot of the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other emergent areas. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Respondent Demographics.

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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. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model.

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