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Modelling Bounded Contexts with the Bounded Context Design Canvas: A Workshop Recipe

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How 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. 45 minutes) I recommend allocating a full-day for this workshop as a starting point. 1 hour) Candidate Context Modelling (min.

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Architecture & DDD Kata: Online Car Dealership

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You can find out more about that here: [link] This kata is based on content from my workshops. This kata is split into four sections that address different aspects of architecting software systems. All architecture decisions are ultimately driven by a company’s business model, so I think this is a sensible starting point.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

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For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. Architecture modernization initiatives aim to convert aging architecture into modern architecture, applying the latest tech innovations and architectural patterns.

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There’s a straight line between strong decision-making and good software 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.

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Miro…. For In-person Talks and Workshops?

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My participation at these conferences is a mixture of talks and workshops. I’ve used Miro exclusively for my in-person workshops and talks, and I plan to for all upcoming events. Miro for In-person Workshops? At NDC Porto 2022, I teamed up with Maxime Sanglan-Charlier to run our 2 hour software architecture-themed workshop.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

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Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. Spread Domain Expertise Design is more than generic technical patterns that can be applied to almost software system.

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

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One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Some complexity we embrace because there is an opportunity to differentiate, whereas some complexity is providing little or no value and is simply making our systems more complex and expensive to maintain. It’s also possible to exchange complexity.