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. It can guid you through your first few cycles of discovery, strategy, and implementation and then you’ll be in a good place to guide yourself. The Strategy Cycle.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. 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. As a result, there can be pressure to begin modernizing a part of the system that will have a clear business impact.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. This necessitates a good understanding of the domains the software represents.

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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 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? 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. Both a wide and deep knowledge of the business and domain is essential.

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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. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

We had an interesting challenge on our hands: we needed to build the core of our app from scratch, but we also needed data that existed in many different systems. The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. We treat it as an input for our system.

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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?”. An abstract example of a high-level value stream for a single development team A value stream at the level of detail above isn’t particularly useful. 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. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” He had a strategy.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. But, the over-focus on micro has detracted from the true benefits of microservices which are about improving the quality and speed of development. Domains are part of the logical architecture of a business. Let me know about your thoughts and experiences.

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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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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

It seems to us that the results of our survey offer a point-in-time snapshot of the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other emergent areas. More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Respondent Demographics.

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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 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

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. The top 3 levels of Ross Clanton et al.’s I call these platforms.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams.

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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. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies.

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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.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. The first developer proposes a push model: bounded contexts should instruct the notifications context to send a notification. It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Definitely not.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Transactional & Invariant Business Rules To enforce business rules in software systems, transactional boundaries need to be identified: which business rules must succeed or fail together.

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