Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 30, 2022

Before you consider building a web or mobile app, one must know the different tools developers use while developing them. A Tech Stack is a set of tools developers use to build an app or any digital product like websites, software, and alike. Front-end refers to the “client-side” development.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It fundamentally changes how teams and tools work together with a common goal: deliver software faster, more frequently and with a higher degree of quality. You’ll be introduced to modern software architecture concepts, containers, feature flags, CI/CD pipeline tools, container orchestration tools, runbook automation tools and much more.

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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. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 28, 2022

Teams need to be able to build and deploy software very easily. No organisation structure can compensate for a poor Developer Experience. But without investment in strong technical practices that keep code healthy and evolvable, you will never be able to go fast, regardless of how teams are organized.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But it would be essential to up the tempo of development velocity to exploit the opportunity. In summary, modernization was essential for the company to achieve its strategy in a competitive landscape. Don’t create an AMET if you don’t need one In time organizations become more able to cope with continuous architecture modernization.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

In my experience, infrastructure is always a top consideration, both in terms of delivering modernized infrastructure which makes future work easier, and dealing with the challenges of trying to develop new technologies on legacy infrastructure which can slow everything right down. Local development is also worth considering, too.

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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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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. A clear warning sign.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

One final point to remember: the goal of the workshop is to produce options and develop the ability to product better options in the future. Things to consider in a presentation: Focus on the core domains: how does each design enable the core parts of the system to be developed more effectively?

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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?”. In this article I’ve been referring to what Emily Peterson refers to as Development Value Streams. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

The monolith allowed for rapid development and quick changes while the knowledge of the space was non-existent. At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the

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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. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Maintaining development velocity. And the last thing we want is to negatively impact our developers’ momentum, or our ability to release new features at a high rate. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must.

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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. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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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. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?

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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. Typically they deploy software once a quarter and love to have code freezes. Creating a shared dependency can boost the productivity of downstream teams.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It’s worth highlighting that platforms should still be developed in product mode. Product Mode by Sriram Narayan Innovation Portfolio An innovation portfolio is invaluable because it expresses where products and platforms are in their lifecycle, revealing where each fits into the strategy.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

One example is the mobile department, a group of mobile development teams who each own a part of a mobile app. 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

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. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

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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. Which one is correct?

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