O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Thoughtful and effective decision-making was a key trend at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019. The ability to make good decisions might be the most important aspect of a software architecture practitioner’s job. Every day.every week.every month, you make critical architectural decisions.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. Coupling Type Which type of coupling exists between components: e.g. sync rpc vs async events. E.g. revenue generator or engagement creator. E.g. Genesis, commodity.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In summary, modernization was essential for the company to achieve its strategy in a competitive landscape. Wardley Mapping, Event Storming, Impact Mapping, C4 Model, Team Topologies, etc.). Learning, upskilling, and patience was necessary. This may require the AMET to have a diverse toolbox of techniques (e.g.,

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

Look for pivotal events?—?look look for key business events which indicate state changes between different parts of the business process. identify the core parts of the domain which have the highest value to the business. Start with simple? —?create create the simple-but-naive model by breaking up the timeline into sequential steps.

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O'Reilly Software

JANUARY 29, 2020

Get a comprehensive overview and hands-on training on software architecture's many aspects. There is no single—or clearly defined—path to becoming a software architect. The sessions at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference reflect this fact. Fundamentals of software architecture (Mark Richards).

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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?”. Team Flow Event Storming is also a great technique for mapping out and visualizing value stream-like processes collaboratively.

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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. I was like, “Wow!

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

The global community has largely decided that in-person events are now safe again. And in the next two months I’ll be attending in-person events in Budapest and Amsterdam. I’ve used Miro exclusively for my in-person workshops and talks, and I plan to for all upcoming events. But what tools will I use?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the Defining the core concepts Leveraged from the Hexagonal Architecture, the three main concepts that define our business logic are Entities , Repositories , and Interactors.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. To support all this, we have over 5,000 employees spread around the globe.

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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?” business, software, teams), it’s discovery structure. A: It depends what you mean by wrong.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

There is a long list of things I love about visual discovery and modelling techniques like Event Storming and Example Mapping. Reading Domain Patterns In the example Event Storm below, orange represents events and red represents hot spots (aka discussion points) about the events they are next to.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Commands vs Events in the Library When a customer checks out a book from the library, it’s a command. Events Add Coupling in the Consumer Imagine if events instead of commands were used. Events Add Coupling in the Consumer Imagine if events instead of commands were used. But the library is not coupled to them.

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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. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age. Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). Almost one-quarter (23%) of respondents work in the software industry ( Figure 3 ). 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

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way.

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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. Essentially, this helps to see what’s important now and what the big bets for the future are.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. An Example Gateway Interchange Context Consider a software system for remotely managing and monitoring devices.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

The second developer dislikes the push model and proposes a choreographed solution: when bounded contexts raise events Notifications should listen and determine when to send a notification. When a context assumes this role, it listens for specific domain events and maps them onto commands sent to a generic context.

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