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. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

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Strategic Tech

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? A software system is a model of a domain.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the Defining the core concepts Leveraged from the Hexagonal Architecture, the three main concepts that define our business logic are Entities , Repositories , and Interactors.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

It’s got a selection of free tools you can use for defining your technology strategy, shaping your architectural boundaries, and organising your teams. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences. What’s the business vision?

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data. This significantly increases event latency.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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. Do you want to keep using a replacement strategy with huge downtimes while you bring up your new application? What does an ACL look like?

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 12, 2023

The ROI of modernization will differ drastically across your business subdomains, so choosing the appropriate modernization strategy for each subdomain is key. I’m experimenting with Substack as my preferred writing platform.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. Stepping back, it’s clear how RabbitMQ has become an essential tool in modern software architecture.

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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?”. Looking Ahead… Momentum is clearly building around the concept of value streams and the discipline of Value Stream Architecture. They’re all pieces in the same puzzle.

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Tech News Gather

MARCH 30, 2022

It requires considerate analysis of the business objectives, devising steps and constructing software architecture. In her current position, she describes herself as a chief marketer and focuses her talents on creating value for customers through content development, social strategy, thought leadership, and more.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 18, 2021

I encounter this problem quite frequently when the word domain is used in the context of business and software architecture. I recommend using terminology to make levels of scale explicitly, like the levels of scale terminology from sociology , when discussing architecture: micro, meso, and macro levels of scale. Meso Domain ?—?an

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

In other words, comparatively few respondent organizations appear to be pursuing dedicated multi-cloud strategies. If anything, organizations seem to be pursuing multi-cloud strategies—even if they aren’t explicitly “doing” multi-cloud. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. Microservices Achieves Critical Mass, SRE Surging. 3 But which cloud?

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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.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how how different domains connect to the business strategy. This is a technique for stitching domains together using commands, events, and queries to determine if the proposed domain boundaries are good candidates for software architecture boundaries.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

Problem, Strategy, and Solution Spaces To gain clarity on the terminology, it’s helpful to describe the various activities involved in building a product, which can then be grouped into buckets like problem and solution space or something else.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The elements in Simon Wardley’s Strategy cycle are much more usable in my opinion. Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle In Wardley’s Strategy Cycle, there are the following elements (with my simplified definitions): Purpose : what is the problem being solved / goal to be achieved in our domain(s) of interest?

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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.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It can guid you through your first few cycles of discovery, strategy, and implementation and then you’ll be in a good place to guide yourself. My advice is to use Simon Wardley’s Strategy Cycle as the basis for your narrative. The Strategy Cycle. Building the Narrative Building a narrative is important for at-least two reasons.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 9, 2020

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. In order to use the tools you will need to copy them onto a board of your own.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment. We informally call this the Noticing stage.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Strategic Relevance Shape boundaries based on importance to current business strategy. Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking. Business Model Role Shape boundaries based on role in the business model.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

This organisational pattern can be mirrored in the software architecture, emphasising the sociotechnical nature of systems. While it is nice to go out of your way to please others, the resulting compromises to the software architecture can lead to dangerous sociotechnical side-effects.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Part 3: Multi-Team Patterns was originally published in Technology Strategy Ideas and Insights on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In summary, modernization was essential for the company to achieve its strategy in a competitive landscape. Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET) was originally published in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And that in order to achieve this strategy implementing a culture of performance throughout the organization is a must. Implementing a performance culture at Wix enabled us to apply performance enhancements to almost every part of our technological stack — from infrastructure to software architecture and media formats.

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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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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

The domain expertise required in each context, the existing organisational structure, technical debt, the long-term business strategy, and hundreds of other factors can determine the optimal design at any point in time. So remember to always keep the chocolate sauce heuristic in mind: Classification is multi-dimensional.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It used a proprietary hardware architecture incompatible with its predecessor PC products, and a new operating system (OS/2) that was only partially compatible with DOS, a product strategy not too dissimilar to what IBM did in the 1960s with the System/360 mainframe. We see similar bet-the-business strategies today.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If you like the content in this article, and want to learn more about using Domain-Driven Design to create a loosely-coupled architecture and organisational structure, keep an eye out for my upcoming public workshops , or contact me for private consulting and training opportunities.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts. Maybe they weren’t invited for political reasons…. This technique plots the business differentiation and domain complexity of a business’s domains.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

If we align our software architecture and teams with these enduring business capabilities, theoretically we’ll have stable, long-term boundaries within which to create sustainable software and minimal dependencies between the teams that run them.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020. Hope to see you there.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This is an important leadership and strategy issue. Naturally, though, the business model, operating model, and strategy all become more complex, especially when dependencies and contention for limited resources arise. Even with the best strategy and organization structure, there will always be dependencies.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop. was originally published in Strategy, Architecture, Continuous Delivery, and DDD on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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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. Creating a shared dependency can boost the productivity of downstream teams. Should We Create a Shared Service?

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