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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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. Our e-commerce platform is composed of a federation of hundreds of software services that work in concert to deliver functionality ranging from recommendations to order fulfillment to inventory tracking.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? The need to keep delivering product enhancements and new innovations while modernization is in process is one big factor, and dependencies between modernization work items is another.

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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. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

But it comes with the overheads of having to find a time where everybody can be present and not working. When attempting to explore innovation opportunities, the need for urgent alignment is greater. Alignment will be slow as will be the speed of innovation on the new product.

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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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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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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This high rate of growth, coupled with the current scale and diversity of offerings presents a huge challenge when setting out to improve performance. Modern websites often provide a richer user experience by downloading and presenting much more media resources, such as images and videos, than ever before. Large preview ).

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