Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For a recent technical workshop I did with one of our strategic cloud partners, I created a deck that aims to answer exactly this question. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What tables and data are candidates to extract into a cheaper database system?

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. During one workshop, I asked a developer “How often does this go wrong?”. There was an industry expert consultant in the workshop.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

In previous articles from this series, we’ve covered auditing CSS codebase health and the incremental CSS refactoring strategy , testing, and maintenance. In this article, we’re going to cover CSS optimization strategies that can optimize CSS file size, loading times, and render performance. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Jump to the workshop ?. Online, and live. Large scale blogs.

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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

JUNE 23, 2018

There is a high cost associated with work that leaves your team… team boundaries and software boundaries should be isomorphic” — James Lewis, Thoughtworks I’ve written and spoken a lot about architecting sociotechnical systems and how to find boundaries. Equally, it’s also about the quality of the work and not just the speed.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. Regardless of which diagram you subscribe to, ultimately the goal is to weigh the different options between cost and speed to determine the right fit for your particular application. Jump to the workshop ?. Unit Testing. Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. Jump to the workshop ?. You need to adapt your scraper’s code for a specific system , and if you use the same script on a new kind of page, you’d have to rewrite parts of it. Online, and live. Oct 25 – Nov 8, 2021.

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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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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. Nevertheless, the fundamental concepts of prioritization won’t change.

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