Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

The figure below shows the typical life-cycle of an architecture modernization initiative, including commonly observed points where we have observed AMET formation. Their technology landscape has a high level of what they consider to be legacy or heritage systems — monolithic systems with tens or hundreds of developers working in them.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. We live in the era of the connected experience, where our daily interactions with the world can be digitized, collected, processed, and analyzed to generate valuable insights. Accumulating all this data to process overnight is not an option anymore.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. 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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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Source code is relatively less important compared to typical applications; the training data is what determines how the model behaves, and the training process is all about tweaking parameters in the application so that it delivers correct results most of the time. Second, the behavior of AI systems changes over time.

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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. Different parts of your system will change together at different times based on your business requirements. Shall we get a Viennetta ? That sounds good. with ice cream).

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Evolving the Domain Landscape A primary purpose of domain discovery techniques, like big picture event storming, is to map out the current state of the landscape, capturing concepts like business processes, socio-technical structures, and roles like customers and colleagues. It’s also possible to exchange complexity.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Most of what we do on our computers—fancy graphics, email, databases, building websites, data analysis, digital signal processing—can’t be done with quantum computing. SRE is a very different way of thinking about software development. Europe and the United States are different regions —and it isn’t just the metric system.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Over the course of days she follows the flow of that ticket through departmental silos and multiple tracking systems. Stories like this one will resonate with everyone who has felt the effect of broken management models and processes. However, architectures have typically evolved around technology stacks and internal company silos.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Even a decade or more is nothing out of the ordinary for large organizations who have accumulated legacy and heritage systems over long periods of time. 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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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

If information is less essential and does not require immediate processing to avoid teams becoming unaligned, the overheads of INSB alignment can be inefficient. Teams will synchronise frequently in order to determine: Where are the boundaries in the system and which team will own which pieces?

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. The product management team states what must be done to solve the problem, and the architect describes how to realize that vision in a system.

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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. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. One way to create a Spotify model inspired engineering organisation is to organise long-lived squads by retail business process hubs - i.e. specialisation around business process. Let's take an example of retail as a domain of interest. Certainly not.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.

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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. Roberts agreed.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

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