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. It’s extremely frustrating as an engineer to work on something which is cancelled and to switch focus to something else.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

And conversely, if you need software with that kind of accuracy (for example, a billing application), you shouldn’t be using AI. How do we test software whose behavior is fundamentally probabilistic? We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference , New York, February 23-26.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Architects, engineers, and developers are using new tools, metrics, and even new concepts, to observe, manage, and optimize performance. Site reliability engineering (SRE) is growing. SRE is a very different way of thinking about software development. Performance is still paramount.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasnt been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Python libraries are no less useful for manipulating or engineering data, too.).

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Coca-Cola engineered a replacement product that consumers rated superior to both the classic Coke product and Pepsi. They engineered a superior product. Remember when client/server software companies like Adobe and SAP transitioned to cloud? IBM rolled the dice that it could achieve not just market primacy, but market dominance.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. The first architect of record is a fellow named Vitruvius, who worked as a civil engineer in Rome in the first century B.C. the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

If you think about the scale that Netflix operates at, and the number of new customers they get every day, they can run far more and bigger tests than their smaller competitors, so they have a scale advantage that they can use to tune their product, and maintain a higher rate of innovation.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

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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. I was like, “Wow!

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

The organization needs to innovate faster to become more competitive. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. The Warehousing Modernization Enabling Team (an AMET) has been established to guide modernization in the Warehousing domain, which consists of 100+ software engineers and a monolithic codebase.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. I’ve been using the Lean Innovation Portfolio for years. Once a day, once a week, once a month etc.

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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. The shared service will ultimately remove an extremely high level of duplication and allow hundreds of engineers to spend more time on activities with a higher value.

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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

APRIL 27, 2020

Framing the Opportunity for Remote Domain Modelling Before I share with you a few tricks and ideas for remote-optimised domain modelling, I’m going to explain some ideas around innovation which are useful for understanding how to apply the right mindset to remote-optimised domain modelling (you can skip this boring bit if you want).

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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. People in the team can’t keep up .

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