Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment. For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system.

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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. By automating these processes with software, the software gets more complex, but the manual processes become less complex.

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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

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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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. In our example, we named the “Warehousing Modernization Enabling Team”, articulating their scope and enabling focus.

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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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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

We can learn a few things from these examples. Field is most often used to designate a domain of professional specialization. Industry , which designates a domain of commercial endeavour Firstly, there are types of domain which add constraints on how items are grouped. Thirdly, domains are not inherently mutually exclusive.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking.

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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. A common question in designing a domain is “how big should a domain be?”

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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. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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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

MAY 19, 2020

In our AI adoption in the enterprise survey , for example, we had close to a 50/50 split between North America and the rest of the world. Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs. In other words, comparatively few respondent organizations appear to be pursuing dedicated multi-cloud strategies.

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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. Example 0.4

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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. What do you see in the example below?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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? Library Context Definition First I’m going to start by defining the library context pattern, and then I’ll show an example architecture which includes a library context.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Perhaps led by strong managers, they will fight vehemently for their work to be prioritised and software systems to be designed to their needs. This organisational pattern can be mirrored in the software architecture, emphasising the sociotechnical nature of systems. These concepts also apply to distributed architectures.

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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. When a new product depends on an existing product, it’s often possible to remove friction-causing dependencies by rethinking domain, team, and software boundaries.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. But there are a series of heuristics, or questions we can ask ourselves, to improve our chances of making the right sociotechnical design decision.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

A common example of a Standalone Capability Group is Identity and Accounts. One example is the mobile department, a group of mobile development teams who each own a part of a mobile app. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. It must be combined with other capabilities to form a complete product.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

An Example Gateway Interchange Context Consider a software system for remotely managing and monitoring devices. For example, it could convert a custom UDP protocol into a JSON structure. Those devices could be cars, motorbikes, boats, drones, and other devices which move around. The first element of the GIC is a translator.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ll show you some example scenarios to help you understand this concept, and I’ll demonstrate sociotechnical architecture patterns you can apply in your organisation to optimise your alignment efficiency. For example, one team can notify other teams via email they are planning to release a new API.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Check out Gojko Adzic’s talk People That Make Computers Go Crazy for many other real examples. The healthcare example used in this article is based on a discussion I recently had with Kacper Gunia based on the needs of a real client. It’s not a fake example and it is typical of the challenges we face when working with our clients.

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