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.

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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It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment.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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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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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. When organising technology teams to build digital products and services, it is necessary to determine which parts of the product, user experience, and technology each team owns.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. It helps people to understand the complex systems they are working with.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations. There is a good balance of business, technology, and organizational improvements. Another chance to use collaborative DDD techniques, this time for designing new processes.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. Systems are getting more complex yet our ability to understand them doesn’t seem to be growing at the same rate. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. It must be useful, have utility.

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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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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. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. Comments ().

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This combination of usage and search affords a contextual view that encompasses not only the tools, techniques, and technologies that members are actively using, but also the areas they’re gathering information about. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. Field is most often used to designate a domain of professional specialization. I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

The figure below shows the typical life-cycle of an architecture modernization initiative, including commonly observed points where we have observed AMET formation. Their technology landscape has a high level of what they consider to be legacy or heritage systems — monolithic systems with tens or hundreds of developers working in them.

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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. Easier to develop.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. Unfortunately, co-change in systems is multi-dimensional.

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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

MAY 9, 2020

If you want to get started with Strategic DDD to gain deeper insights into your domain and to align your software architecture with your domain, you can use this Miro board: [link] No sign up, installation, or payment is required to view the board. In order to use the tools you will need to copy them onto a board of your own.

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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. Every domain I model and every modelling workshop I run, different people like to slice up systems across different domain boundaries.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like? All ML projects are software projects. Let’s start by considering the job of a non-ML software engineer: writing traditional software deals with well-defined, narrowly-scoped inputs, which the engineer can exhaustively and cleanly model in the code.

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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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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Some teams have complicated branching and testing processes which need accentuating, especially when legacy systems are involved or deploying to app stores. The details can vary quite a lot.

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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. Compliance by design is a cool concept, makes life easier for developers. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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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. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies.

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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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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). All told, we received 1,283 responses.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing. Comments ().

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. Domain Group Related parts of a system combine to provide higher level functionality, and those parts of a system are highly likely to change together often, as a business evolves existing capabilities and develops new ones.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The systems we build are composed of many pieces. How should we slice up the system and divide responsibilities among teams in our organisation? In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. From mobile apps, to domains, to user journeys.

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