Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. First with a domain quiz, and then by slicing up the provided event storm into domains.

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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. primarily virtual?—?and

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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

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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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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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. They combine an event handling function with state information about each device. Also, the use of digital twins provides automatic correlation of incoming events for each device, thereby simplifying applications.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. They combine an event handling function with state information about each device. Also, the use of digital twins provides automatic correlation of incoming events for each device, thereby simplifying applications.

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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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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As we can observe, the investment and involvement of the AMET tend to follow a bell curve, where there is increasing investment and involvement of the AMET in the modernization initiative to facilitate the necessary design and upskilling needed to improve the architectural capability.

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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

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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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

To do so Netflix’s design required: An event based mechanism that could ingest information about application autoscaling groups. What was problematic about this design? Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many customers try to use traditional tools to monitor and observe modern software stacks, but they struggle to deal with the dynamic and changing nature of cloud environments. ” A monolithic software application has a few properties that are important to understand. How observability works in a traditional environment.

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cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance. That situation could come about because of a radiation event changing memory or register values , for example. Achieving Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Implementations are very specific to their use case.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Use them as a starting point for design and discovery, and then bend them to your needs. If you’re not familiar with the Bounded Context Canvas it is a tool for visualising the key design choices of a Bounded Context or a sub-system in your software architecture. What happens if we explore the free design option?

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. 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.

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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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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

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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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?

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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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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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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. Interactors can be triggered not only by a controller, but also by an event, a cron job, or from the command line.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

The techniques we use for visual, collaborative domain modelling are designed for in-person events, where everybody is in the same physical space. Not as a pathetic, temporary alternative to in-person, but a totally different experience designed around it’s limitations and advantages. Or, just take a break.

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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+%). Almost one-quarter (23%) of respondents work in the software industry ( Figure 3 ). Respondent Demographics.

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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 16, 2022

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way.

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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

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

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. An Example Gateway Interchange Context Consider a software system for remotely managing and monitoring devices.

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