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Process Debt Is Something You Should Care About

DZone

Early this year, the book Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture was published. He wrote a chapter that is particularly useful in contexts where the architecture and environment still have many opportunities for improvement. Intro and Problem Statement.

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The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? A software system is a model of a domain.

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Highlights from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019

O'Reilly

Experts from across the software architecture world came together in Berlin for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Watch “ Cognitive biases in the architect’s life “ The three-headed dog: Architecture, process, structure. Cognitive biases in the architect’s life.

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The Agile Architect: Mastering Architectural Observability To Slay Technical Debt

DZone

It's a story as old as ( UNIX ) time — in scene one, we meet an international online retailer whose software infrastructure is based on a sprawling monolithic application. But with this shift, understanding our software architecture on a deeper level while keeping up with the quick pace of release cycles is becoming more challenging.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

It’s much better to build your process around quality checks than retrofit these checks into the existent process. NIST did classic research to show that catching bugs at the beginning of the development process could be more than ten times cheaper than if a bug reaches production. A side note.

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Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2018

O'Reilly Software

Watch highlights covering the latest tools and techniques of software architecture. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York 2018. Experts from across the software architecture world came together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference.

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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. If we’re serious about complexity, the complexity of building secure systems needs to be managed and controlled in step with the rest of the software, otherwise it’s going to add more vulnerabilities. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.

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