Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out. Kotlin’s type system eliminates the danger of null references from code.

Java 100

Java Lambda Software Architecture Programming 100

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Fast forward to the present day and we find ourselves in a world where the number of connected devices is constantly increasing. Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Determine requirements first.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. System Role What is the role of a component in the system. I hope you find these variables useful.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. The third stand-out issue was “no server maintenance.”

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

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.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. Both a wide and deep knowledge of the business and domain is essential.

Design 76

Design Systems Strategy Processing 76

Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. 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. As a result, there can be pressure to begin modernizing a part of the system that will have a clear business impact.

Architecture 52

Architecture Infrastructure Technology Technology 52

The Symphonia

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We hope it will be one of the banner announcements at Andy’s or Werner’s keynotes, presented by Abby Fuller. Mike spoke on “Introducing Serverless to your Organization” as a keynote at O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Europe (video here ?—?Safari Adding new replicas on-the-fly to DynamoDB global tables.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Software Architecture 40

cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

In distributed computer systems, Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a characteristic of a system that tolerates the class of failures known as the Byzantine Generals' Problem ; for which there is an unsolvability proof. Simply put, a Byzantine Fault is a fault that presents different symptoms to different observers. Atomic Broadcasts.

Blockchain 62

Blockchain Latency Systems C++ 62

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The systems we build are composed of many pieces. How should we slice up the system and divide responsibilities among teams in our organisation? In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. From mobile apps, to domains, to user journeys.

Architecture 59

Architecture Design Mobile Systems 59

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

In a small system this may be a table in a central relational database, but it’s best setup as a NoSQL data source using something like Amazon DynamoDB or Apache Cassandra, with a caching client library or at large scale a microservice data access layer. You need an “abtest” database service.

Testing 52

Testing Tuning Database Cache 52

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. All ML projects are software projects.

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

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!

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

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.

Architecture 98

Architecture Metrics Logistics Strategy 98

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop. Maybe I can’t describe how I feel, but it’s just so different to a flat list of slides that all the popular presentation tools use. The system I use is to number my slides using the format {section number}.{slide

Virtualization 52

Virtualization Software Architecture Architecture Games 52

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. Check out my presentations and articles.

Software Architecture 52

Software Architecture Architecture Design Software 52

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.

Design 40

Design Software Architecture Architecture Software 40

Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. Individual teams may be full-stack/end-to-end or dedicated presentation/domain teams. An Experience Group is a collection of teams which handle only experience and presentation concerns.

Architecture 98

Architecture Mobile Infrastructure Cloud 98

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. Teams will synchronise frequently in order to determine: Where are the boundaries in the system and which team will own which pieces? Without this planning, you are pitting teams against each other.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Speed Innovation Transportation 40

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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Architecture Monitoring Software Software 40

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. Consider the scenario: an in-house notifications system is to be replaced by an off-the-shelf solution. It’s a route for information flowing in and out of the system. Which one is correct? Definitely not.

Architecture 40

Architecture Design Engineering Best Practices 40