Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Domain message flow modelling is used for this step.

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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. Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment. For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system.

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ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For example, the system could perform continuous predictive analytics on the engine’s parameters with knowledge of the engine’s maintenance history and signal if an impending failure was detected. For example, they can track engine telemetry with knowledge of the engine’s known issues and maintenance history.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. When organising technology teams to build digital products and services, it is necessary to determine which parts of the product, user experience, and technology each team owns. They are outside of the software.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The language, practices, and tools of cloud native architecture are prominent in Velocity Berlin proposals. 25 in the tally of the highest weighted proposal terms) to foundational cloud native technologies such as “Kubernetes” (No. SRE is a very different way of thinking about software development. 3, following Kubernetes.

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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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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

The need to measure outcomes and business value for software development, and the shift from Project to Product , require the deployment of a scalable and turnkey VSM solution. Bottlenecks from internal processes and a dated software architecture severely affected morale. Culture was blamed for the lack of results.

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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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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last week I spoke with Carlota Perez , who is currently researching the historical context of each of the five technological revolutions summarized in Project to Product. But it is time for us to move beyond manufacturing analogies, and to craft a new narrative for this next phase of the Age of Software.

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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

MAY 24, 2019

how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. For example, an organisation may have existing offices in five countries. E.g. having to maintain components built in multiple technologies. Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? In the Architecture Modernization Sequencing Grid, this is the bottom right corner. Below is a generic scorecard you can use as an example.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. These are all-in bets taken and lost, two examples of big bets that resulted in big routs.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. What is required is a software architecture that enables seamless migration without requiring application code to be reimplemented for execution on edge-based platforms.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

For example, some security incidents have had a widespread, costly impact. Consider Log4Shell, a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library. Log4j is a ubiquitous software code in various consumer-facing products and services. For example, credit card numbers are excluded by default.”

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

It collects, processes, and outputs log files to and from a wide variety of technologies. Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. For example, say you find multiple error events in different log files. Fluentd logs in context: Example use cases.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

It collects, processes, and outputs log files to and from a wide variety of technologies. Detailed performance analysis for better software architecture and resource allocation. For example, say you find multiple error events in different log files. Fluentd logs in context: Example use cases.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, a recent global survey of 700 CIOs found that 86% of companies are now using cloud-native technologies and platforms, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containers, to accelerate innovation and stay competitive. Log aggregation, the practice of combining logs from many different services, is a good example.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. We can learn a few things from these examples. For example, an industry is a domain where domain concepts are grouped based on commercial endeavour like the ride sharing industry. Meso Domain ?—?an

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace. They are targeting 3–5x revenue growth in the next 5 years.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, a recent global survey of 700 CIOs found that 86% of companies are now using cloud-native technologies and platforms, such as Kubernetes, microservices, and containers, to accelerate innovation and stay competitive. Log aggregation, the practice of combining logs from many different services, is a good example.

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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?”. Looking Ahead… Momentum is clearly building around the concept of value streams and the discipline of Value Stream Architecture.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

You can see the impact of these efforts in the Core Web Vitals Technology Report from Google Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) / HTTP Archive : Ratio of sessions with good CWV per platform. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As the pace of business quickens, software development has adapted. Increasingly, teams release software features more quickly to accommodate customer needs. As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. What is monolithic architecture?

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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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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). All told, we received 1,283 responses.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 11, 2021

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death.

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2020

If you’re not familiar with the Bounded Context Canvas it is a tool for visualising the key design choices of a Bounded Context or a sub-system in your software architecture. In the example below, the Onboarding context has a chatty interaction with the Profile context. Treat it as a starting point, or as a sensible default.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As Steve Jobs wisely said, Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s Thinking In my view, technology executives and engineering leaders are overly obsessed with the Spotify model. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. And there lies the problem. Probably yes.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

In the first example section I added a couple of paragraphs on “choreography over orchestration”. two ideas that I think are very useful when we’re using technology as rapidly deployable as Serverless ones. I was slightly worried that it would come to mean “just FaaS”, but lots of folk have helped steer it away from that.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices.

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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. Consumer expectations are in a constant state of flux as new technological advancements arise and new competitors emerge, yet the goal is to continuously deliver products that satisfy market demand.

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