The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2025

The big up front design phase that lasts for months (if not quarters) is going to be a tough sell when the AI brought to bear is touted as a major time saver: in the minds of the buyers, either the machines speed things up or they dont. This has ramifications for the consulting business model. Not the customers business.

Technology 40

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. However, if nobody reads the documentation and it gets out of date quickly, it’s a tick-box exercise rather than a value creating one. designing systems that document themselves. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

DevOps 72

DevOps Architecture Technology Technology 72

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

To support its objectives, the company operates a digital platform that enables customers to earn points when they exercise or eat healthily. Over the past few years, the company has undergone a digital transformation, migrating to a hybrid, cloud-native environment built on Amazon Web Services and a microservices architecture.

Healthcare 246

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. Many bulkhead architectures partition their cells on tenants, where a tenant is defined as a team and their collection of applications. We do not take this approach, and instead, we partition our cells to balance load.

Media 295

Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. That said, the guiding thread, predominantly under the client’s control, remains the backend perspective. In other words, where the application code resides.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 264

Strategic Tech

JUNE 21, 2020

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. Visualising Progress The theme of our workshop was to teach Strategic Domain-Driven Design using the Bounded Context Canvas as a visual model to aid learning. Digital tools like Miro allows us to design workshops as interactive journeys.

Design 98

Design Logistics Transportation Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both The steps can be arbitrary Python code. both for compute and storage.

Open Source 135

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 135

Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. All architecture decisions are ultimately driven by a company’s business model, so I think this is a sensible starting point. Is each domain core, supporting, or generic?

Architecture 52

Architecture Software Architecture Strategy Design 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU.

AWS 125

AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application architecture to gain insights into how application architecture changes impact performance and user experience. By default or by design, different teams may deploy a combination of point solutions — specialized monitoring tools that capture the individual components of their application environment.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 165

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In effect, the engineer designs and builds the world wherein the software operates. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Software Architecture. What model architecture is most suitable for the task? Foundational Infrastructure Layers.

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Open Source Infrastructure 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

and exercise best CSS practices. To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. I like to think of design tokens as the glue that maintains consistency across the project.

Website 144

Website Design Best Practices Code 144

MachMetrics

JANUARY 4, 2019

The PageSpeed Module is one of several free Google tools designed to help assess and improve page load speed times. After integrating PageSpeed Module components on the server side, the architecture and files of your website will automatically rewrite for optimal performance.

Speed 60

Speed Website Open Source Google 60

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Back in the summer I shared some of the techniques I’d been using to reimagine my in-person architecture workshops as remote digital offerings with Miro. They’re a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. This also has the reverse of effect or forcing me to design each half-day around a very specific focus.

Energy 69

Energy Architecture Design Technology 69

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Anne Thomas [1] captures this very well in her article " SOA is Dead; Long Live Services ": Although the word 'SOA' is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever. what’s the best ESB?'

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year. We skipped a few sessions (the exercises), but in retrospect we should have watched them all I think. Q: How long did it take? We spent maybe 5 hours each day watching the videos.

Transportation 52

Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Although completing a story may require contribution from people in different roles - QA analyst and developer and experience designer, for example - each person is still responsible for the entire outcome of the story. An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need. Good managers know how to work the problem and solution space.

Metrics 52

Metrics Design Engineering C++ 52

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many of the practices that enable teams to move quickly are the same practices that enable highly-reliabile systems: automation, observability, testing, and design. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way. It doesn’t need to be a choice of one over the other.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time. Let’s refer to this as an Invariant Business Rule.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

This is an intellectually challenging and labor-intensive exercise, requiring detailed review of the published details of each of the components of the system, and usually requiring significant “detective work” (using customized microbenchmarks, hardware performance counter analysis, and creative thinking) to fill in the gaps.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

In some cases, if only a very few, these assets continue to be used because they still work very well, were thoughtfully designed, and have been well cared for over the years. The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets.

Code 52

Code Architecture Strategy Programming 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment. They make use of standard object-oriented concepts and languages (such as C#, Java, and JavaScript).

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

Real-time digital twins are designed to be easy to develop and modify. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment. They make use of standard object-oriented concepts and languages (such as C#, Java, and JavaScript).

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!” Compliance doesn’t need to scary, stressed Levins.

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The limits legitimated the architecture of app store control are gone, but the rules have not changed. The nuances of careful security design are common casualties in FUD-slinging fights. 11] We designed web APIs to accommodate a diversity of views about exposing features, and developers guard against variable support already.

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. The IEEE Micro paper’s section on the Allocation Unit says: “The rename buffer stores the results of the in-flight micro-ops until they retire, at which point the results are transferred to the architectural register file.”

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. FMAs/cycle. . Some vector instructions can execute in only one of the two vector pipelines.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Those courses include topics like design thinking, communication, entrepreneurship, and project management, in addition to courses on Microsoft Word and Excel. The Pearson correlation is 0.8, B2B users complete courses in management and “soft skills” at a much higher rate than B2C users. And, let’s face it, everyone wants product managers.

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Education Azure AWS Java 108