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Software projects are becoming complex, larger, more integrated, and are implemented by the use of several varieties of technologies. Quality attributes usually assessed and analyzed at the architecture level, not at the code level. MORE
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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. As software architects, we have to make the same challenging choices. A Software Example Consider the example of a marketplace for financial products. MORE
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. domain-driven-design domain-modelling ddd software-architecture MORE
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. Defining software architecture. Watch " Defining software architecture.". --> Turning request-response on its head. MORE
To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle. An architect should focus on designing a scalable software architecture from the early phase of the product life cycle. performance domain driven design software design principles tco software architecture design scaleablility MORE
Leveraging Hexagonal Architecture We needed to support the ability to swap data sources without impacting business logic , so we knew we needed to keep them decoupled. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture. MORE
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. It’s an independent piece of software that sits conceptually at the edge of your architecture and mediates communication between agents outside the architecture and those within it. microservices software-architecture domain-driven-design MORE
Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. This notion has been reinforced through four decades of work in computer architecture and software after it was first driven home to me by a luminary in computer architecture at Intel Corporation, the late George Cox. MORE
Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture. MORE
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. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago. MORE
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. Why not self-documenting architecture? MORE
In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. 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. MORE
Choosing the right architecture pattern for any software is very important. Each software pattern has its own merits and demerits which can directly affect the overall attributes of software, thereby affecting the business. Software Development MORE
One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. The Head of Architecture, the CTO, and the Chief Product Officer have all given their blessing to the new shared service so there is alignment on moving to the new service. Typically they deploy software once a quarter and love to have code freezes. MORE
Watch highlights from expert talks covering cloud-native programming, software architecture career advice, and more. People from across the software architecture world are coming together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Gregor Hohpe explains how software architects can use what they know about technical systems to help refactor organizations. Design and architecture: Special Dumpster Fire Unit. MORE
Experts explore software architecture security, design heuristics, Next Architecture, and more. Experts from across the software architecture world are coming together in San Jose for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Next Architecture. MORE
Experts explore new trends, tools, and techniques in software architecture. Continue reading Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019 MORE
how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. software-architecture sociotechnical-arch sociotechnical domain-driven-designOver the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking. MORE
If you want to get started with Strategic DDD to gain deeper insights into your domain and to align your software architecture with your domain, you can use this Miro board: [link] No sign up, installation, or payment is required to view the board. MORE
From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. Two of the outstanding features of the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference are the depth and breadth of our content. MORE
You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? The implementation may look the same, but having more precise terminology is useful in allowing you to communicate your architecture more clearly. sociotechnical domain-driven-design software-architecture MORE
Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision? MORE
domain-driven-design software-architecture domain-modelingHow do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. 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. There is no shortcut to identifying good boundaries. MORE
Microservices, serverless, AI, ML, and Kubernetes are among the most notable topics in our analysis of proposals from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. The speaker proposals we receive for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference are valuable because they come from speakers who are often the leading names in their fields. They also understand that business and architecture can no longer be compartmentalized, and that revenue is at stake. MORE
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. software-architecture domain-driven-design enterprise-architecture MORE
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People from across the software architecture world came together in London for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Why software architects fail and what to do about it. Stefan Tilkov looks at common software architecture pitfalls and explains how they can be avoided. Watch " Why software architects fail and what to do about it.". Continue reading Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2018 MORE
Software Architecture Design Patterns: Data Managment Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software DevelopmentApplications that rely heavily on a data-store usually can benefit greatly from using the Cache-Aside Pattern. If used correctly, this pattern can improve performance and help maintain consistency between the cache and the underlying data store. This post is part of a Design Patterns series. Reading Data. MORE
Because of software error, the spacecraft encountered Mars at a lower than anticipated altitude and disintegrated due to atmospheric stresses. According to this report, the primary cause of this failure was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units. Space Software Development Programming Software Architecture MORE
Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. It just means that from Software Development perspective, servers are abstracted and outsourced to another entity, so you don't need to worry about it. Serverless is currently a hot topic in many modern architectural patterns. This has a huge impact on application architecture, however having said that, it's not necessarily a bad idea. MORE
Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Systems Architecture Software Architecture Distributed ComputingIn 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. The Byzantine Generals' Problem. MORE
Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries. MORE
Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices. MORE
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. MORE
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? MORE
Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. This notion has been reinforced through four decades of work in computer architecture and software after it was first driven home to me by a luminary in computer architecture at Intel Corporation, the late George Cox. MORE
Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. domain-driven-design team-topologies organization-design business-architecture software-architectureAs a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. MORE
A Model For Describing The Architecture of a Business Before defining team responsibility ownership patterns and comparing their trade-offs, it’s necessary to have common ground on the language used to define responsibilities a team may own. They are outside of the software. MORE
The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team. MORE
Old Gatekeeper Architecture This model had several problems associated with it: This process was completely I/O bound and put a lot of load on upstream systems. New Gatekeeper Architecture With this model, liveness evaluation is conceptually separated from the data retrieval from upstream systems. and we can do so with a higher level of safety than was possible in the previous architecture. caching software-architecture programming open-source software-engineering MORE
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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. Conversely, bad software architecture decisions have the potential to leave an organization hamstrung for years. MORE
Get a comprehensive overview and hands-on training on software architecture's many aspects. There is no single—or clearly defined—path to becoming a software architect. The sessions at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference reflect this fact. MORE
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Software projects are becoming complex, larger, more integrated, and are implemented by the use of several varieties of technologies. Quality attributes usually assessed and analyzed at the architecture level, not at the code level.
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MAY 16, 2019
Microservices, serverless, AI, ML, and Kubernetes are among the most notable topics in our analysis of proposals from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. The speaker proposals we receive for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference are valuable because they come from speakers who are often the leading names in their fields. They also understand that business and architecture can no longer be compartmentalized, and that revenue is at stake.
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AUGUST 10, 2020
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?
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Choosing the right architecture pattern for any software is very important. Each software pattern has its own merits and demerits which can directly affect the overall attributes of software, thereby affecting the business. Software Development
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People from across the software architecture world came together in London for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Why software architects fail and what to do about it. Stefan Tilkov looks at common software architecture pitfalls and explains how they can be avoided. Watch " Why software architects fail and what to do about it.". Continue reading Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2018
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Watch highlights from expert talks covering cloud-native programming, software architecture career advice, and more. People from across the software architecture world are coming together in New York for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Gregor Hohpe explains how software architects can use what they know about technical systems to help refactor organizations. Design and architecture: Special Dumpster Fire Unit.
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Experts explore software architecture security, design heuristics, Next Architecture, and more. Experts from across the software architecture world are coming together in San Jose for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Michael Carducci takes an entertaining look at why humans are so easy to fool, and he explores what we can do to overcome our weaknesses and build more secure software. Next Architecture.
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Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. This notion has been reinforced through four decades of work in computer architecture and software after it was first driven home to me by a luminary in computer architecture at Intel Corporation, the late George Cox.
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Get a comprehensive overview and hands-on training on software architecture's many aspects. There is no single—or clearly defined—path to becoming a software architect. The sessions at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference reflect this fact.
O'Reilly Software
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics. Two of the outstanding features of the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference are the depth and breadth of our content.
ScaleOut Software
JUNE 29, 2018
Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. This notion has been reinforced through four decades of work in computer architecture and software after it was first driven home to me by a luminary in computer architecture at Intel Corporation, the late George Cox.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2018
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. Defining software architecture. Watch " Defining software architecture.". --> Turning request-response on its head.
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Experts explore new trends, tools, and techniques in software architecture. Continue reading Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin 2019
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The microservices era has been good for software architecture. A domain service builds on the basic definition of a microservice: it’s a loosely-coupled, independently deployable element of software architecture which is owned by a single team.
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Leveraging Hexagonal Architecture We needed to support the ability to swap data sources without impacting business logic , so we knew we needed to keep them decoupled. We decided to build our app based on principles behind Hexagonal Architecture and Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture.
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A Model For Describing The Architecture of a Business Before defining team responsibility ownership patterns and comparing their trade-offs, it’s necessary to have common ground on the language used to define responsibilities a team may own. They are outside of the software.
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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. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.
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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. domain-driven-design domain-modelling ddd software-architecture
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NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices.
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JULY 21, 2020
Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision?
DZone
JUNE 12, 2019
To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle. An architect should focus on designing a scalable software architecture from the early phase of the product life cycle. performance domain driven design software design principles tco software architecture design scaleablility
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NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. software-architecture domain-driven-design enterprise-architecture
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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. Conversely, bad software architecture decisions have the potential to leave an organization hamstrung for years.
The Netflix TechBlog
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Old Gatekeeper Architecture This model had several problems associated with it: This process was completely I/O bound and put a lot of load on upstream systems. New Gatekeeper Architecture With this model, liveness evaluation is conceptually separated from the data retrieval from upstream systems. and we can do so with a higher level of safety than was possible in the previous architecture. caching software-architecture programming open-source software-engineering
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FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries.
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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. Why not self-documenting architecture?
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In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. 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.
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If you want to get started with Strategic DDD to gain deeper insights into your domain and to align your software architecture with your domain, you can use this Miro board: [link] No sign up, installation, or payment is required to view the board.
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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JULY 22, 2019
domain-driven-design software-architecture domain-modelingHow do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? This is the question I get asked the most, so I’ve put together this article describing a workshop recipe you can use. 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. There is no shortcut to identifying good boundaries.
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APRIL 27, 2019
Organisations maximising the advantages provided by microservices tend to be organisations which view microservices not just as a technical tool, but a sociotechnical tool.The way software systems are shaped determines the communication paths and the coupling between development teams. Layers start to emerge and as a result, shipping new customer-facing features require changes that cut through multiple layers of the architecture.
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MAY 24, 2019
how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. software-architecture sociotechnical-arch sociotechnical domain-driven-designOver the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking.
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Because of software error, the spacecraft encountered Mars at a lower than anticipated altitude and disintegrated due to atmospheric stresses. According to this report, the primary cause of this failure was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units. Space Software Development Programming Software Architecture
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Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. It just means that from Software Development perspective, servers are abstracted and outsourced to another entity, so you don't need to worry about it. Serverless is currently a hot topic in many modern architectural patterns. This has a huge impact on application architecture, however having said that, it's not necessarily a bad idea.
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Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Systems Architecture Software Architecture Distributed ComputingIn 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. The Byzantine Generals' Problem.
Strategic Tech
JUNE 4, 2019
One of the key decisions we need to make in software architecture and in our organisations is when and where to create shared services and organise teams to build them. The Head of Architecture, the CTO, and the Chief Product Officer have all given their blessing to the new shared service so there is alignment on moving to the new service. Typically they deploy software once a quarter and love to have code freezes.
Strategic Tech
AUGUST 1, 2019
You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? The implementation may look the same, but having more precise terminology is useful in allowing you to communicate your architecture more clearly. sociotechnical domain-driven-design software-architecture
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. It’s an independent piece of software that sits conceptually at the edge of your architecture and mediates communication between agents outside the architecture and those within it. microservices software-architecture domain-driven-design
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. As software architects, we have to make the same challenging choices. A Software Example Consider the example of a marketplace for financial products.
cdemi
MAY 8, 2016
Software Architecture Design Patterns: Data Managment Design Patterns: Performance & Scalability Design Patterns Software DevelopmentApplications that rely heavily on a data-store usually can benefit greatly from using the Cache-Aside Pattern. If used correctly, this pattern can improve performance and help maintain consistency between the cache and the underlying data store. This post is part of a Design Patterns series. Reading Data.
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