ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

It is our job as software platform architects to look for these opportunities and hopefully integrate them into our architectures in a skillful manner. The digital twin model for stateful stream-processing is a case in point. One indicator of a useful software architecture is that it provides unexpected benefits.

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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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DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. There are so many benefits. A side note.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Designing security in from the start almost always leads to a simpler result than bolting security on as an afterthought, and the complexity will stay manageable if new features and security grow together. That code may take the form of dozens of microservices running as asynchronous processes and communicating over a network.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. As developers move to microservice-centric designs, components are broken into independent services to be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Microservices cons.

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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. All architecture decisions are ultimately driven by a company’s business model, so I think this is a sensible starting point. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?

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cdemi

MAY 8, 2016

This post is part of a Design Patterns series. It may be beneficial to have the application prepopulate the cache as part of the startup process. An item in the data store may be changed at any time by an external process, and this change might not be reflected in the cache until the next time the item is loaded into the cache.

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cdemi

MAY 6, 2016

I have decided to write a series on some common and modern Design Patterns that are useful in today's horizontally scalable (such as cloud-hosted) applications. The Competing Consumer Pattern enables a system to process multiple messages concurrently to optimize throughput, to improve scalability and availability.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Building on the Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern , the Competing Consumer Pattern enables a system to process multiple messages concurrently to optimize throughput, to improve scalability and availability, and to balance the workload. Systems that use the Competing Consumer Pattern should ensure that message processing is idempotent.

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cdemi

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The service retrieves the messages from the queue and processes them. Requests from a number of different tasks, which can be generated at a highly variable rate , can be passed to the service through the same message queue and will be processed at a constant rate that the service can work at. Considerations.

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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. You have to know what you want to do; you have to have a design in mind. Is the craft of software architecture different from the craft of programming?

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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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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. Domains are synonymous with business capabilities from the business architecture world.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Evolving the Domain Landscape A primary purpose of domain discovery techniques, like big picture event storming, is to map out the current state of the landscape, capturing concepts like business processes, socio-technical structures, and roles like customers and colleagues. You can apply the same techniques to your own landscape.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It is a database of domain, business, and architectural information. We should be able to click a few buttons and get 100% accurate visualisations of the domain model, business processes, and architecture. A self-documenting architecture would reduce the learning curve.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. The digital twin model is worth a close look when designing the next generation of IoT applications.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It’s a nice pattern which enables a single team to own the entire codebase, user experience, and deployment process. It makes a lot of sense to organise teams around specific user journeys or user personas in order to design the optimal end-to-end experience. A web app, an Android app, or an iOS app for example.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The traditional EA role of documenting business processes and capabilities serves a purposes. designing systems that document themselves. They also need to work with product teams to facilitate collaborative bottom-up discovery, using techniques like EventStorming, blended with traditional top-down views.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

People use these words to try and articulate the types of work and activities they are referring to, or where they are in the process of building something new. I often encounter the phrases problem space and solution space.

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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.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." This is supported in real terms through standards and consistent application of conventions, both in the information architecture (i.e., It must be useful, have utility. Solid doesn't mean inflexible.

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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. A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database. What was problematic about this design? Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, let’s take a deeper look into the actions and processes we put in place in order to achieve these significant results. There are more challenges for us in addition to scale and diversity: Retaining existing design and behavior. In other words, we needed to find a way to automate the process of preventing performance degradations.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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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

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.

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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?”. The utility comes from zooming in and visualizing the real complexity using value stream maps which show more granular steps combined with the processing time of each step and the wait time before each step.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture.

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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. You can also experiment with various workshop formats.

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