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

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.

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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. It’s easy to imagine a lot of software professionals saying, “Of course you’ll have to know C. You have to know what you want to do; you have to have a design in mind.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

In my work, I often encounter software developers who refer to the software as the solution space. the backlog) and implementing them in software is the solution. Credit: Teresa Torres If you are a software developer, remember that the solution is not just the implementation — it is the whole concept to address an opportunity.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

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Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

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. This is done via special declarations called extensions. Kotlin provides extension functions and extension properties.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Roman use the example of Microsoft Office as a product bundle. They are outside of the software.

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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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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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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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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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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

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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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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cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Real World Examples of Byzantine Failure. That situation could come about because of a radiation event changing memory or register values , for example. Achieving Byzantine Fault Tolerance.

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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. All ML projects are software projects.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace. They are targeting 3–5x revenue growth in the next 5 years.

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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. There are too many variables involved.

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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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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 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?”. Looking Ahead… Momentum is clearly building around the concept of value streams and the discipline of Value Stream Architecture.

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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. What is monolithic architecture?

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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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

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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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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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. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. You want to move fast. Probably yes.

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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. Example 0.4

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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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