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. 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.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? Software architects might want to see the domain boundaries for 100 microservices.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Is there any way it’s possible to predict the future so that our architecture can easily absorb the changes we need to make of it? One thing I want you to notice is that good architecture is about more than just defining good boundaries. In DDD a bounded context is an independent, loosely-coupled architectural component.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. More after jump!

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Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

If I can capture key information earlier, that gives me a good understanding of key elements of the business’s architecture, we can get to valuable conversations sooner. I’m looking at this challenge from multiple angles, and one of them is figuring out the key information I need. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Just like visually-abled users don’t read every word on a page but scan for interesting things, blind screen reader users don’t make their software read each and every word. Continue reading below ↓ Deep-dive into front-end accessibility with Carie Fisher in her upcoming Smashing workshop on Accessible Front-End Patterns.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. In companies with many teams and many millions of lines of code, including a lot of legacy, there are endless things that can be improved in the product, software, and organization. Why Thing Get Stuck After Discovery?

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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. Design review is basically a code review but for architecture.

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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 following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. Information architecture. More after jump! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 25, 2020

I’m currently working with a team at Software Park building event-driven services for a giant European transport company. Process Pre-workshop Prior to the workshop the facilitator set out the board, and shared a wiki page giving a very brief intro to the notation and the process and a link to the Miro board. The Facilitator ?—?the

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Tasktop

JUNE 20, 2019

That’s why the continued focus on connecting development to the business and all other stages of the software delivery value stream is absolutely crucial to any digital transformation. An Agile organization’s biggest architectural blindspot? Creates a modular, Agile toolchain: Software innovators require a best-of-breed tool strategy.

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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. These concepts also apply to distributed architectures.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you’d like to dive a bit deeper into animation with Figma, a guide to adding animation to your designs in Figma shows the entire workshop, and various options you have, step-by-step. Jump to online workshops ?. Illustrate with a vector software, then import it into your design, right? Annotations Made Easy in Figma.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age. Lack of accountability leads to unmaintainable software that grows harder and harder to change.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While it’s a crucial shift in approaching IT and enterprise software delivery to accelerate market response and adaptability, it’s also a journey. When it comes to software delivery, there are many activities and siloed metrics. Register for a Value Stream Management Workshop. Measuring Business Outcomes Over Activities.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? You can do this with almost any visual workshop technique. What is this arrangement of colours and shapes telling you?”.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A Value Stream Architecture (VSA) diagram can provide that visual cue: A Value Stream Architecture exercise maps the flow of value-creating and -protecting software delivery work across your toolchain that underpins your product value stream. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox. Subscribe now.-.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

We will be running a remote-optimised domain-driven design workshop on 15–16th June where we will use some of the techniques discussed in this post and many others, like the bounded context canvas. We can use these to capture outcomes from the workshop aka follow-up actions. In my in-person workshops, I’ve faced this hard limitation.

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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. If you’re looking for training we have several tutorials and workshops on the calendar. See our complete speaking schedule here.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved. Moving from a single to multiple products can be one of those situations where architecture starts to get in the way.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In software, reacting to unforeseen circumstances in real-time is not possible. The gap between defining business requirements and translating them into software needs to be minimised in order to prevent this category of problems. In the software system, we need to decide the business transaction boundaries aka DDD Aggregates.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 28, 2013

Revenue poured in, would-be investors called constantly, The Wall Street Journal ran features on you twice, marketing chiefs from a dozen S&P 100 firms wanted you in workshops to figure out how to "partner", and your founder was presenting keynotes and on panels every few weeks. The existing software couldn't support that.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Request a personalized product walkthrough and/or have your value stream architecture mapped by one of our Value Stream Architects to see how Tasktop can help you accelerate business value delivery across your software portfolio. . Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox. Subscribe now.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. With loosely-coupled architectures we can invest more granularly where payback is greatest. Diligently-crafted boundaries give us strategic-flexibility.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

For people working in roles directly related to creation and evolution of a software asset - experience designers, developers, QA analysts - this is easy to understand. But the key characteristic is both the ability and willingness to immerse and comprehend the details of the stories, the architecture, the code, the design, the tests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around. The reference codec used is JPEG from the JPEG-XT reference software, using the standard quantization matrix defined in Annex K of the JPEG standard.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. In most curriculums, undergrad students do not have much exposure to computer architecture. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Read about our Architecture and Allocation Strategy , how we’ve been Reimagining Experimentation , our Design Principles for Mathematical Engineering , and how we leverage Computational Causal Inference to support innovation and scale on our democratized platform. without having to become software engineers themselves.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

From AWS architectures to web applications to AI workloads, explore the impact of shifting responsibilities when moving along the spectrum of self-managed and managed. Take a close look at services and discuss trade-offs and considerations for resource efficiency and how to keep architecture flexible as requirements change.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. In his recent Smashing Conference talk, green software expert Asim Hussain mentioned that the biggest shift he is seeing is as a result of regulation — or the threat of regulation. Jump to online workshops ?. Regulation.

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