Design, Innovation, Software and Software Architecture

The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? A software system is a model of a domain.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software

Legacy Architecture Modernisation With Strategic Domain-Driven Design

Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. It’s got a selection of free tools you can use for defining your technology strategy, shaping your architectural boundaries, and organising your teams. You can do either first.

Architecture

Architecture Design Software Architecture Strategy

Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

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.

Strategy

Strategy Technology Technology Design

Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns. The architecture becomes easier and cheaper to change, enabling faster flow, and reducing technical debt, fragility and security concerns.

Architecture

Architecture Innovation Airlines Technology

10 talks to look for at the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London

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.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software

5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

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. R was designed for use in academic, scientific, and, more recently, commercial use cases.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture

How architecture evolves into strategy

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.

Strategy

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

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.

Cloud

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System

Microservices vs. monolithic architecture: Understanding the difference

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?

Architecture

Architecture DevOps Monitoring Programming

The ‘Chocolate Sauce’ Design Heuristic

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.

Design

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Fundamentals of software architecture

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).

Software Architecture

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Tasktop Viz launch – DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 – Day Two Recap

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? He had a strategy.

DevOps

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics

Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. The Warehousing Modernization Enabling Team (an AMET) has been established to guide modernization in the Warehousing domain, which consists of 100+ software engineers and a monolithic codebase.

Architecture

Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

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.

Website

Website Performance Google Media

Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

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.

Engineering

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare

A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B.

Innovation

Innovation Speed Google Strategy

Remote-optimised Domain Modelling: The Present and Future

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. We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas.

Innovation

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Our e-commerce platform is composed of a federation of hundreds of software services that work in concert to deliver functionality ranging from recommendations to order fulfillment to inventory tracking.

Technology

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Should We Create a Shared Service? A Decision-making Checklist

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.

Software Architecture

Software Architecture Efficiency Innovation Architecture

Alignment Efficiency: When to Sacrifice Speed for Greater Alignment

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

When attempting to explore innovation opportunities, the need for urgent alignment is greater. When the new innovation requires functionality and data from existing products and services, one approach is for the new innovation to be partially owned by each team which the new product cuts across.

Efficiency

Efficiency Speed Innovation Transportation

The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems

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.

Systems

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Platforms provide the foundation for higher levels of innovation. An example of a Domain Group A domain group is an internal service provider, exposing domain data and business process operations to experience-layer groups or other domain groups. Productivity Platform Group A core concept in Team Topologies is the platform.

Architecture

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