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Legacy Architecture Modernisation With Strategic Domain-Driven Design

Strategic Tech

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. How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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Sociotechnical Design Variables

Strategic Tech

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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Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

Strategic Tech

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.

Design 76
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Trends and Topics for 2022

Adrian Cockcroft

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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A Day with Kotlin

Software Architecture

Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out. That’s why I like to say that Kotlin is Python of the Java world!

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Beyond Problem and Solution Space: Better models for modern product development

Strategic Tech

You can simply present the mandate levels diagram and ask people to pick out which level they are referring to when they talk about problem space, for example. Credit: John Cutler Mandate levels is an easy way to quickly escape from confusion arising from problem and solution space.