Strategic Tech

AUGUST 26, 2018

A trip to the supermarket can teach you a lot about designing software systems and shaping teams to build them… I was recently in need of some chocolate sauce. The Chocolate Sauce Heuristic for Software Design There are a few lessons about software development we can learn from this story, but I want to focus on design.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved. A clear warning sign.

Architecture 64

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O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

. • More than one-third have adopted site reliability engineering (SRE); slightly less have developed production AI services. Software engineers represent the largest cohort, comprising almost 20% of all respondents (see Figure 1 ). Designing a survey inevitably entails making a spate of methodological trade-offs.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. Is it possible to draw inspiration from outside of software engineering?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams. The Warehousing Modernization Enabling Team (an AMET) has been established to guide modernization in the Warehousing domain, which consists of 100+ software engineers and a monolithic codebase. You can also experiment with various workshop formats.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Evolving Your Aggregates Over Time The initial criteria on which you base your aggregate design is likely to change over time. If you’d like to go through the whole process of modelling domains, shaping the software architecture, and finding aggregates, join my 2 day workshop at DDD EU in February 2020.

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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. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability. It doesn’t need to be a choice of one over the other.

Innovation 52

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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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