Strategic Tech

JANUARY 24, 2021

Individual teams may be full-stack/end-to-end or dedicated presentation/domain teams. An Experience Group is a collection of teams which handle only experience and presentation concerns. Architecture Ownership Patterns for Team Topologies. Each team in an Identity group may own one or more features.

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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.

Engineering 192

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. In this context, they refer to a count very close to accurate, presented with minimal delays. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. State management is the heart of any system that needs to grow to very large size.

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Software Architecture

APRIL 8, 2018

Kotlin’s official documentation is great and there are many introductory articles to Kotlin language on medium, so I won’t be explaining the basics and syntax but wanted to present some unique features that Java doesn’t have and makes Kotlin stand out.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While Git , GitHub, and other similar tools for software version control work well for code and the usual workflows of software development, they are a bit clunky for tracking all experiments, models, and data. Software Architecture. What model architecture is most suitable for the task? Data Science Layers.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 2, 2021

Modernizing an architecture usually take years. This presents technology leaders with one of the most difficult modernization challenges: where to start and in which order to modernize? In the Architecture Modernization Sequencing Grid, this is the bottom right corner. Starting with something brand new defers these discoveries.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Large teams present their own problems, but it’s ironic to see writers scorning the “two pizza group” concept because it can’t possibly work for large organizations. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Can Agile work for large teams?

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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. Introducing Metaflow These observations motivated Metaflow, our human-centric framework for data science.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, a shared language was proposed to accurately describe different elements of a business’s architecture. We can now start to slice and group those architectural pieces into team-sized chunks and analyse the trade-offs of each pattern, and explore contexts in which they might be applicable.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

Another scenario where copy and paste is valuable is where different individuals or different groups want to translate the domain model into a software architecture aligned to bounded contexts by grouping events on the model. In my in-person workshops, I’ve faced this hard limitation. There is 1 model shared by the whole group.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Topics like microservices and cloud native computing present an additional problem: salary commitments. In the 21st century, churn is ever present. Critical thinking presents different issues. No university has the computing resources comparable to Google, or even to a well-funded startup.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

You can simply present the mandate levels diagram and ask people to pick out which level they are referring to when they talk about problem space, for example. Credit: John Cutler Mandate levels is an easy way to quickly escape from confusion arising from problem and solution space.

Development 98

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Summaries are useful for presenting the key ideas presented in the book: For example, the summaries of Cloud Native Go gave a good overview of how Go could be used to address the issues faced by people writing software that runs in the cloud. Ive heard AIs read out source code listings in Python; its awful and useless.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This high rate of growth, coupled with the current scale and diversity of offerings presents a huge challenge when setting out to improve performance. And it also engaged with the performance community as a whole, for example by attending conferences, bringing in domain experts, and studying up on modern architectures such as the Jamstack.

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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?” The best place to start will depend on the goals of the workshops, who is present, and other factors.

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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. Maybe I can’t describe how I feel, but it’s just so different to a flat list of slides that all the popular presentation tools use. albeit a few annoyances, too. Miro for In-person Workshops?

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

And of course, when you need to choose the most suitable design, The 5 Primary Heuristics of Sociotechnical Architecture will help you to identify the optimal solution for your business needs. A big thanks to Zsofia Herendi who invented the chocolate sauce heuristic.

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Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A typical user journey would include all the actions in a typical human user’s session using a website or application – the screens they are presented with, what objects they click on, and what screens and data payloads are returned. Distracted by distributed, dynamic architectures.

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cdemi

JUNE 10, 2017

Simply put, a Byzantine Fault is a fault that presents different symptoms to different observers. Several system architectures were designed that implement Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Similarly, a Byzantine Failure is the loss of a system component due to a Byzantine Fault in a distributed system that requires consensus.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. performance, security) UX / Brand Perception: design decisions which have an impact on how users experience the system I’ve recently been collating some of the variables which exist in each of these areas, and they are presented in the remainder of this article.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

And of course, if you’re interested in getting some help in April or May for architecture review, DevSecCostOps (™) , or building a Lambda-backed proof-of-concept, then drop us a line. News from the Serverless World A new year brings a promise of growth. Mike was at NDC London (see his talk on “ Serverless?—?the

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

Each group of four people will need at-least four metres of wall space I’ve presented the techniques loosely in order that you might want to follow them. Closing Presentation To close out the workshop each group should present a selection of the context maps they created and discuss the trade-offs of each design.

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The Symphonia

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We hope it will be one of the banner announcements at Andy’s or Werner’s keynotes, presented by Abby Fuller. Mike spoke on “Introducing Serverless to your Organization” as a keynote at O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Europe (video here ?—?Safari Adding new replicas on-the-fly to DynamoDB global tables.

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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!”

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

When your software system communicates with external systems or devices, there is good reason to isolate all communication with the external system into a single place and perform the relevant translation there. In fact, it’s a combination of three patterns which were first presented in Enterprise Integration Patterns over a decade ago.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ll show you some example scenarios to help you understand this concept, and I’ll demonstrate sociotechnical architecture patterns you can apply in your organisation to optimise your alignment efficiency. But it comes with the overheads of having to find a time where everybody can be present and not working.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 1, 2019

You’re building a new system and two members of your team propose alternative architectures for sending notifications. How will you design the most effective architecture which supports short-term goals and long-term evolution? Each of the patterns presented in the post are valid and used successfully in a variety of systems.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

That’s where test results are presented, and there will be a lot of counter-intuitive results, head-scratching, and useful suggestions from the audience. I think its good practice to have a big monthly A/B test meeting of all the product managers and engineering managers, including executives.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All seven sessions and a Mainstage presentation will focus on helping organizations move successfully forward on this journey. Cloud-native software architectures provide the ability for deployment options , like Blue/Green, Canary, Dark Launches, and Feature Flagging – and make them easier.

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