Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences.

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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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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

This investment builds on our market leadership in Value Stream Management (VSM) and will accelerate the growth and innovation that is fueling the success of our customers and partners. . Some organizations have moved quickly to become digital innovators, while others have been slower to see the signs. We are not measuring flow.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. They often compete with product/feature development work, resulting in them falling flat and failing to deliver the promised business benefits that triggered them.

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ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Real-Time Digital Twins Can Add Important New Capabilities to Telematics Systems and Eliminate Scalability Bottlenecks. However, telematics architectures face challenges in responding to telemetry in real time. Competitive pressures should spark innovation in this area, and real-time digital twins can help.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sometimes, this can be achieved with relatively minimal disruption, like when the products are highly distinct and can be developed fully in-parallel. The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. This is often not the case, however. Uber started life as a ride-hailing product.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Most companies have their own language for talking about products, platforms, systems, value streams and so on. Not all parts of a system are considered to be part of a product. It’s worth highlighting that platforms should still be developed in product mode. I’ve been using the Lean Innovation Portfolio for years.

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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. One example is the mobile department, a group of mobile development teams who each own a part of a mobile app. Platforms provide the foundation for higher levels of innovation.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

This means that, to have a history of how an application was developed, you have to look at more than the source code. Second, the behavior of AI systems changes over time. How do we test software whose behavior is fundamentally probabilistic? You need a repository for models and for the training data. We will need to learn.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 4, 2019

One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. Take a look at the following checklist and the example patterns and I’m sure you’re more likely to architect better systems in the future. I don’t think so.

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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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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

There are many challenges that need to be addressed to create the right architecture to support the range of fast data applications that your enterprise needs. Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

One of the most exciting topics we’ve been following is the development of quantum computing. To do meaningful computation on a quantum computer, we’ll need to develop quantum error correction. Architects, engineers, and developers are using new tools, metrics, and even new concepts, to observe, manage, and optimize performance.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Even a decade or more is nothing out of the ordinary for large organizations who have accumulated legacy and heritage systems over long periods of time. The need to keep delivering product enhancements and new innovations while modernization is in process is one big factor, and dependencies between modernization work items is another.

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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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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. There’s plenty of security risks for business executives, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, etc., to be wary of.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

If you are not familiar with the functional programming or data storage concepts that come up, talk to one of your developers who do. Over the course of days she follows the flow of that ticket through departmental silos and multiple tracking systems. This is another place where the book will be a great tool for your journey.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

In a small system this may be a table in a central relational database, but it’s best setup as a NoSQL data source using something like Amazon DynamoDB or Apache Cassandra, with a caching client library or at large scale a microservice data access layer. You need an “abtest” database service. a non-overlapping confidence interval.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Store engineering squad - focus on software and systems required for the storefront including point-of-sales system, promotions, etc. Back-office engineering squad - customer support, business intelligence, real-estate management, systems for finance & HR, etc. You want to move fast.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Usually, this is correlated with an increase in complexity, because to make a domain more differentiating you need to develop greater expertise and capabilities in that area. Your core domain might be moving left because your competitor’s have launched a new innovation that renders yours obsolete. Domains can also be evolved downwards.

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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!” Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

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