Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

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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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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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. TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

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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? Domains are subjective and they are not mutually exclusive.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

This is such a fundamental difference, that many architectural choices from native platforms don’t easily apply to the web — if at all. iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The key to loose coupling is to understand how the system you are building is going to change, and minimising the cost of those changes. 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? It could be a microservice or a module within a monolith.

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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. Most companies have their own language for talking about products, platforms, systems, value streams and so on. The product taxonomy definitions by Ross Clanton et al.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

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O'Reilly Software

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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. Not to worry!

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Jump to online workshops ?. Common Websocket Architecture. Event Sourcing Architecture.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Deep-dive into front-end accessibility with Carie Fisher in her upcoming Smashing workshop on Accessible Front-End Patterns. Jump to the workshop ?. She is very hands-on, conducts research and conveys important topics regarding web app accessibility in great presentations, blog posts, and workshops.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In the computer architecture community, we have recently taken a number of initiatives to help mentor PhD students, however, we believe that there is a need for more mentoring opportunities and especially for focused mentoring opportunities. Next, we outline what we believe such a workshop should provide its students.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

Since the code contains JavaScript modules, you can only run the example from an HTTP server and not from the local file system. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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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 12, 2021

design systems. 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. Design Systems With Figma. The Design System Manager plugin for Figma makes it possible. Jump to online workshops ?.

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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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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. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Another hurdle to decision making is when technology leaders feel that the skills needed to deliver big changes don’t exist within the organization like the lack of DDD, architecture, or cloud skills. It’s also possible to exchange complexity.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

In his upcoming online workshop The TypeScript Masterclass , Stefan Baumgartner will dive into type systems and how to use them well when writing JavaScript. Jump to the workshop ?. reactivity system is powerful in a way that it detects things that need updating and updates them without you as the developer doing anything.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

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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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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

There are thousands of ways we can shape the software systems we build and organise our teams around them. Sociotechnical systems are complex systems formed of complex systems. The products themselves are software systems which grow harder and harder to reason about as they scale and age.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. Information architecture.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 22, 2020

These metrics are unique in the sense that they abstract away from details like team structure, technical architecture and tool implementations to measure the flow of software delivery work that creates and protects business value across the entire value stream. Edwards Deming, to improve the system you need to get outside the system.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If this sounds like poor architecture to you — you’re absolutely right. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. and Express.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If someone from a different culture with a different naming convention cannot be served by a system, it’s not good business or publicity. Transactional & Invariant Business Rules To enforce business rules in software systems, transactional boundaries need to be identified: which business rules must succeed or fail together.

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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. . Smart Modeling. The Easiest, Most Sophisticated Value Stream Management Solution in the Market.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

If we accept the fact that Agile is a value system and not a set of mechanical processes, it stands to reason that there must be something different about the norms and behaviors of Agile managers vis-a-vis traditional managers. Create and adapt the mechanical processes and social systems through which the team gets things done.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

As an industry we’re still getting our heads around what Serverless Application Architecture looks like, and also what good ways are to deploy and distribute apps. an excellent tool for rapid development of systems. Upcoming Workshops I hope you enjoyed this article! Thanks Tim Wagner . I’ve successfully used it now.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 13, 2018

The norms of standards organisations are set, largely, by social cohesion amongst those working to improve the systems they maintain. Implementers feel a responsibility to resist designs they feel would be detrimental to either their architecture or their competitive position. Evidence is not (yet) a compelling argument.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

. “(…) what started with organized PostCSS gradually grew to become a complex and entangled global CSS architecture with a lot of specificities and overrides. Besides, as the number of frontend developers contributing to the codebase also grows, this kind of CSS architecture becomes even more difficult to work with.”. More after jump!

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Choosing 420 subsampling, over the original 444 format, halves the number of samples (counting across all 3 color planes) that need to be encoded while relying on the fact that the human visual system is more sensitive to luma than chroma. However, 420 subsampling can introduce color bleeding and jaggies in locations with color transitions.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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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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