Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

The figure below shows the typical life-cycle of an architecture modernization initiative, including commonly observed points where we have observed AMET formation. Their technology landscape has a high level of what they consider to be legacy or heritage systems — monolithic systems with tens or hundreds of developers working in them.

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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. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability.

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Strategic Tech

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. As a consequence, we also have subservient teams?

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