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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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 29, 2020

Get a comprehensive overview and hands-on training on software architecture's many aspects. There is no single—or clearly defined—path to becoming a software architect. The sessions at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference reflect this fact. Fundamentals of software architecture (Mark Richards).

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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?”. Team Flow Event Storming is also a great technique for mapping out and visualizing value stream-like processes collaboratively. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture. The idea of Hexagonal Architecture is to put inputs and outputs at the edges of our design. 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

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. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately. Start with simple? —?create

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Techniques like big picture event storming are great for mapping out the business and visualising problems and opportunities, but that’s where progress can easily get stuck. How do you go from event storm to product and organizational improvements? One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops.

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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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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Commands vs Events in the Library When a customer checks out a book from the library, it’s a command. Events Add Coupling in the Consumer Imagine if events instead of commands were used. Events Add Coupling in the Consumer Imagine if events instead of commands were used. But the library is not coupled to them.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

The global community has largely decided that in-person events are now safe again. And in the next two months I’ll be attending in-person events in Budapest and Amsterdam. I’ve used Miro exclusively for my in-person workshops and talks, and I plan to for all upcoming events. But what tools will I use?

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

There is a long list of things I love about visual discovery and modelling techniques like Event Storming and Example Mapping. Reading Domain Patterns In the example Event Storm below, orange represents events and red represents hot spots (aka discussion points) about the events they are next to.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In summary, modernization was essential for the company to achieve its strategy in a competitive landscape. Once the organization, particularly the teams involved, reach a certain architectural capability, they can drive more of the architecture modernization initiative. AMET designs and facilitates the Kickstarter Workshop.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many of the practices that enable teams to move quickly are the same practices that enable highly-reliabile systems: automation, observability, testing, and design. This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Event Storming and Team Topologies are tools that can help you in this space to re-think boundaries.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

A strict definition of “cloud” must also include software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings of all kinds—including email (Google G Suite email; Microsoft Exchange Online), office productivity suites (Google Docs and Sheets; Microsoft Office 365), and similar offerings. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

The second developer dislikes the push model and proposes a choreographed solution: when bounded contexts raise events Notifications should listen and determine when to send a notification. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? This doesn’t feel right?—?knowledge

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It receives commands or events from outside the system in one protocol and translates them into another protocol. If a context like Geofencing needs location data, it should listen to events from the Location service and not receive the data directly from the GIC. The first element of the GIC is a translator.

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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.

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