Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As the pace of business quickens, software development has adapted. Increasingly, teams release software features more quickly to accommodate customer needs. As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. What is monolithic architecture?

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It fundamentally changes how teams and tools work together with a common goal: deliver software faster, more frequently and with a higher degree of quality. 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.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

I contributed ideas to the WAS and helped shepherd it through the release process as executive sponsor for the cross Amazon and AWS team that wrote and released it. Coming up on Jan 26, 2022 I’ll be presenting at the online OReilly Software Architecture Superstream event. and develop the ideas in this deck further.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Some technology leaders feel like they don’t have the experience and skills to confidently lead major technology and organizational modernizations.

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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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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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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. They are outside of the software.

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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. How do we test software whose behavior is fundamentally probabilistic?

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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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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. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time.

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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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Tasktop

APRIL 8, 2021

The need to measure outcomes and business value for software development, and the shift from Project to Product , require the deployment of a scalable and turnkey VSM solution. Bottlenecks from internal processes and a dated software architecture severely affected morale. Culture was blamed for the lack of results.

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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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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. But it is time for us to move beyond manufacturing analogies, and to craft a new narrative for this next phase of the Age of Software.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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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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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. The post Digital Twins Enable Seamless Use of Edge Computing in IoT appeared first on ScaleOut Software.

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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. Kodak invented digital camera technology but was slow to commercialize it.

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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

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

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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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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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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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It’s a nice pattern which enables a single team to own the entire codebase, user experience, and deployment process. A multi product variant team owns multiple product variants In order to own more of the architecture, a team needs some way to manage the additional effort. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. Team Flow Event Storming is also a great technique for mapping out and visualizing value stream-like processes collaboratively.

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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. What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like?

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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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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. A clear warning sign.

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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 need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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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. I was like, “Wow!

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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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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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