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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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. An excellent piece of work to start with is Indi Young’s problem, strategy, and solution space model. I often encounter the phrases problem space and solution space.

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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

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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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

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. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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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

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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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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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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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!” He had a strategy. He laid out a mission.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The architecture of the software could be sliced up into a Leasing context and a Car Pool context. Leasing is responsible for managing the leasing process and keeping a historial record of all leases. If the answer is yes, it should probably not be coupled to your specific business process steps.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

A strict definition of “cloud” must also include software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings of all kinds—including email (Google G Suite email; Microsoft Exchange Online), office productivity suites (Google Docs and Sheets; Microsoft Office 365), and similar offerings. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

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. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each subdomain is owned by a separate team.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2018

If information is less essential and does not require immediate processing to avoid teams becoming unaligned, the overheads of INSB alignment can be inefficient. When the information is essential to alignment and is urgently required to be acted upon, INSB alignment is ideal.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time. We can make exceptions or we can bypass a few steps to accommodate special circumstances that we never anticipated.

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