Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Who to invite? I recommend organising attendees into groups of 4–5 people.

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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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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?

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They’re fun, but I don’t find them a good source of insight into what’s happening in technology. However, discussion of regulation will be a major pastime of the chattering classes, and major technology companies (and venture capital firms) will be maneuvering to ensure that regulation benefits them. How will this affect technology?

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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.

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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. Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations.

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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. They are outside of the software.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When architecture ages without proper care, it becomes more and more of a liability and competitive disadvantage. It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment. AMET designs and facilitates the Kickstarter Workshop.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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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. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time.

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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. designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A multi product variant team owns multiple product variants In order to own more of the architecture, a team needs some way to manage the additional effort. An alternative option is to maximise reuse using technologies like Flutter. Check the Reviews team in the Org Design for Design Orgs example later in this article.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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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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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

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. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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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

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

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. There are too many variables involved.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Large preview ). Jump to table of contents ?.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

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. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. They are targeting 3–5x revenue growth in the next 5 years.

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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 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Looking Ahead… Momentum is clearly building around the concept of value streams and the discipline of Value Stream Architecture.

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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!” I was like, “Wow! What’s next? He had a strategy.

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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. This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking. When designing socio-technical systems, we often want to show domains at different levels.

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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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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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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.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Agile is not, and never was, about getting developers to write software faster. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. This is important. Neckbeards? Geeks and nerds?

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons…. This technique plots the business differentiation and domain complexity of a business’s domains.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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