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

Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations. The example I see most often is complex manual processes ( Operational Complexity ) involving multiple people, excel spreadsheets, and a variety of tools.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 12, 2023

Architecture Modernization is far more than just rebuilding the old system with new technologies and the latest architectural patterns. It’s an opportunity to completely rethink the UX, product functionality, business processes, and the domain model (and remove unneeded complexity).

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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. Processes are also a hierarchical concept.

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ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s a typical telematics architecture for processing telemetry from a fleet of trucks: Each truck today has a microprocessor-based sensor hub which collects key telemetry, such as vehicle speed and acceleration, engine parameters, trailer parameters, and more. Solution: Real-Time Digital Twins.

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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. The language, practices, and tools of cloud native architecture are prominent in Velocity Berlin proposals. Certainly not now, and possibly never.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Domain Variables Domain Flow Direction How the business process flows through components. Domain Flow Control How is the business process controlled? Domain Flow Duration What is the duration of the overall business process, or a subset.

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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. Upcoming events.

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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. Stories like this one will resonate with everyone who has felt the effect of broken management models and processes.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an organisation, and are experts in aligning technology solutions with the business objectives. The traditional EA role of documenting business processes and capabilities serves a purposes.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. Investing in design should be rewarded.

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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

Two years later this company still has no meaningful visibility into whether its capacity to deliver value through technology accelerated or declined as a result of the transformation. Bottlenecks from internal processes and a dated software architecture severely affected morale. Part II: Invest with intent.

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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. These are excellent guides for us in technology today.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. They combine an event handling function with state information about each device.

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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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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Kodak invented digital camera technology but was slow to commercialize it. In the early 2000s, Navistar bet on a diesel engine emission technology - EGR, or exhaust-gas-recirculation - that was contrary to what the rest of the industry was adopting - SGR, or selective catalytic reduction. As the 1990s business strategy sage M.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 18, 2018

In previous blogs , we have explored the power of the digital twin model for stateful stream-processing. Digital twins are software abstractions that track the behavior of individual devices in IoT applications. They combine an event handling function with state information about each device.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It is a database of domain, business, and architectural information. We should be able to click a few buttons and get 100% accurate visualisations of the domain model, business processes, and architecture. A self-documenting architecture would reduce the learning curve. The Future…. Leave a comment or contact me directly.

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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

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. It collects, processes, and outputs log files to and from a wide variety of technologies. Processing plugins parse (normalize), filter, enrich (tagging), format, and buffer log streams. Adding the Dynatrace plug-in is easy.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This combination of usage and search affords a contextual view that encompasses not only the tools, techniques, and technologies that members are actively using, but also the areas they’re gathering information about. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Modern observability technologies have helped enterprises identify software vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell in their environments. Additionally, modern observability enables organizations to reduce the time it takes to identify these software vulnerabilities from weeks or months to hours or days.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2022

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies log collection, processing, and consumption. It collects, processes, and outputs log files to and from a wide variety of technologies. Processing plugins parse (normalize), filter, enrich (tagging), format, and buffer log streams. Adding the Dynatrace plug-in is easy.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Dynatrace news. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

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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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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

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This lack of visibility creates blind spots and makes it difficult to ensure the health of applications running on serverless technologies. Dynatrace news. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

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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. Please feel free to contact me.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

According to IDC, the requirement of the digital economy to deliver high-quality applications at the speed of business has driven a shift to highly modular, distributed, and continuously updated microservices-based architectures that use cloud-native technologies. What is microservices architecture? Less code and stack lock-in.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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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. Should Onboarding really know the process for the individual steps for setting up a profile? Treat it as a starting point, or as a sensible default.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

By Drew Koszewnik This is the story about how the Content Setup Engineering team used Hollow, a Netflix OSS technology, to re-architect and simplify an essential component in our content pipeline?—?delivering delivering a large amount of business value in the process. One exciting thing about the total nature of this technology?—?because

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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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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.

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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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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When we asked if respondents’ organizations had adopted serverless (defining “adopted” as entering into a contract with a vendor to provide serverless resources), we expected a low take rate for this relatively new and developing technology. Interestingly, a higher-than-expected 40% of respondents said they had adopted serverless.

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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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