Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

People use these words to try and articulate the types of work and activities they are referring to, or where they are in the process of building something new. An excellent piece of work to start with is Indi Young’s problem, strategy, and solution space model. I often encounter the phrases problem space and solution space.

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

You’ll be introduced to modern software architecture concepts, containers, feature flags, CI/CD pipeline tools, container orchestration tools, runbook automation tools and much more. Do you want to keep using a replacement strategy with huge downtimes while you bring up your new application? What does an ACL look like?

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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

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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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. Domain Variables Domain Flow Direction How the business process flows through components. Domain Flow Control How is the business process controlled?

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It used a proprietary hardware architecture incompatible with its predecessor PC products, and a new operating system (OS/2) that was only partially compatible with DOS, a product strategy not too dissimilar to what IBM did in the 1960s with the System/360 mainframe. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

In fact, Software Design EventStorming is like a DSL for designing business processes that translate directly into code. Provide Design Training & Coaching Training can accelerate the design learning process for any engineer or architect. Visualisation techniques like EventStorming can also be used to design code.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

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. There are usually a number of factors which greatly complicate the situation. Often there is a tension. I appreciate all good-natured feedback and interactions.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

look for key business events which indicate state changes between different parts of the business process. Bounded Context Design Canvas The next step of the design process is to design your candidate bounded contexts by detailing key design criteria. create the simple-but-naive model by breaking up the timeline into sequential steps.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. The utility comes from zooming in and visualizing the real complexity using value stream maps which show more granular steps combined with the processing time of each step and the wait time before each step.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

by Damir Svrtan and Sergii Makagon As the production of Netflix Originals grows each year, so does our need to build apps that enable efficiency throughout the entire creative process. One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, let’s take a deeper look into the actions and processes we put in place in order to achieve these significant results. So once a certain level of performance is achieved, we want to be able to preserve it without being constantly required to invest additional effort, or slow down the development process. The Wix Challenge.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Primary Heuristic 2: Align with Business Domain Unless we’re a startup that is constantly pivoting, macro parts of our business processes will remain stable over long periods of time. Putting Heuristics into Practice We still don’t have a flowchart yet for designing sociotechnical systems but we’re bringing more structure to the process.

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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?” I find that the more details added when fleshing out the domain (e.g. This is quite a big topic.

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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. Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

It’s the process you use to make the design decisions that matters. The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. Please read on for clarification.

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

In other words, comparatively few respondent organizations appear to be pursuing dedicated multi-cloud strategies. If anything, organizations seem to be pursuing multi-cloud strategies—even if they aren’t explicitly “doing” multi-cloud. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. Microservices Achieves Critical Mass, SRE Surging. 3 But which cloud?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The architecture of the software could be sliced up into a Leasing context and a Car Pool context. Leasing is responsible for managing the leasing process and keeping a historial record of all leases. If the answer is yes, it should probably not be coupled to your specific business process steps.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

An example of a Domain Group A domain group is an internal service provider, exposing domain data and business process operations to experience-layer groups or other domain groups. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each subdomain is owned by a separate team.

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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. When the information is essential to alignment and is urgently required to be acted upon, INSB alignment is ideal.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. There are still challenges with this approach?

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

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