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Beyond the technical: Succeed at leading a software architecture team

Beyond the technical: Succeed at leading a software architecture team

March 4, 2020

Software architects and enterprise architects work with a variety of roles; often the deep technical work is performed by other application architects or solutions architects. Maggie Carroll explores developing influence as well as skills and actionable techniques she found useful when creating a new enterprise architecture function and a tool for remaining productive as a leader.
Cloud native survival kit

Cloud native survival kit

March 4, 2020

Pini Reznik shares a story drawn from real-world migration projects that demonstrates a transformation design and reveals related patterns, including failures along the way. By the end, it establishes a full pattern language.
Measure your agile architecture maturity

Measure your agile architecture maturity

March 2, 2020

Eltjo Poort is here to help you figure out if you've struck the right balance between architecture and agile working. Eltjo explores how to measure agile architecture maturity and applied the model to help teams get more value out of their architecture function. You might recognize some of the behavior patterns.
Scaling out architectural decision making

Scaling out architectural decision making

March 1, 2020

In the fast-moving startup world, there's often not a lot of time to think about architecture. N26 wanted to ensure that it not only delivered fast but also delivered a quality product. Patrick Kua explores how the company scaled out architectural decision making as it grew very rapidly (in both customers and engineers).
The three-headed dog: Architecture, process, structure

The three-headed dog: Architecture, process, structure

March 1, 2020

The architecture of your system is tightly coupled to both the processes you use and the structure of your organization. Allen Holub details how these three interact and how to fix the misalignment that's sucking the life out of your productivity.
Complex change through simple steps: 3 principles to reduce deployment time by 99%

Complex change through simple steps: 3 principles to reduce deployment time by 99%

February 28, 2020

While its great to think big, it's important to start small and sensibly. David Jungwirth explains how Enterprise Studio by HCL Technologies helped an enterprise achieve a deployment time reduction of 99%, double its releases, and massively reduce its overhead costs for each release with few small improvements over a period of two and a half years.
An Agile Approach to Threat Modeling for Securing Open Source Project EdgeX Foundry

An Agile Approach to Threat Modeling for Securing Open Source Project EdgeX Foundry

February 23, 2020

Evaluating security risks and conducting threat modeling are challenging for open source project contributors and adopters. There are rarely enough people, or people with experience, to tackle these t …
Measuring and Improving the Efficiency of Software Delivery

Measuring and Improving the Efficiency of Software Delivery

February 16, 2020

Imagine you start work on a feature on Monday at 10 am, and it goes live on Thursday at 10 am. We call that difference Delivery Lead Time – in this case, a very respectable three days.When you decrea …
From whiteboard to production: A demand forecasting system for an online grocery shop

From whiteboard to production: A demand forecasting system for an online grocery shop

February 13, 2020

Data-driven software is revolutionizing the world and enable intelligent services we interact with daily. Robert Pesch and Robin Senge outline the development process, statistical modeling, data-driven decision making, and components needed for productionizing a fully automated and highly scalable demand forecasting system for an online grocery shop for a billion-dollar retail group in Europe.
Evolutionary systems for software

Evolutionary systems for software

January 30, 2020

Modern software systems and companies are starting to resemble ecosystems more than engines, and yet we keep trying to design and manage our work like engineers. Aaron Longwell looks to nature for inspiration instead.
Get your poker face on: How to use Planning Poker to slay project estimations

Get your poker face on: How to use Planning Poker to slay project estimations

January 29, 2020

You no longer have to worry about anyone asking, "How long will that take?" Laura Bernardin Janusek explores how to use Agile, consensus-based estimation technique Planning Poker to generate thoughtful and data-backed estimations for any product build.
Integrating security into modern software development: A workflow study

Integrating security into modern software development: A workflow study

January 28, 2020

Application security testing has been around for a long time, yet successful attacks continue despite significant investments in application security. Shift left isnt enough for modern software development that needs integrated and automated continuous security testing. Lucas Charles looks at three key considerations to get you there.
Microservices at the Edge - Best Practices

Microservices at the Edge - Best Practices

January 27, 2020

IoT Edge processing as an architectural component emerged to meet the demands of reducing network bandwidth requirements and lowering response latency. Microservices as a software paradigm evolved to …
A Story About Common Sense, Functional Safety and Software Development

A Story About Common Sense, Functional Safety and Software Development

January 26, 2020

Today the added value in products is shaped not so much by hardware or even mechanical parameters, but mainly software. Software allows the use of diversified sources and wide choice of variants with …
X-Road Joint Development Cross-border Open Source Development Between Two Countries and Global Community

X-Road Joint Development Cross-border Open Source Development Between Two Countries and Global Community

January 25, 2020

The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) is an association founded jointly by Finland and Estonia. Its mission is to develop open e-governance solutions, kicking off with the X-Road …
Unlocking your serverless functions with OpenFaaS for AI chatbot projects

Unlocking your serverless functions with OpenFaaS for AI chatbot projects

January 23, 2020

Sergio Mendez examines critical challenges when implementing AI chatbots and explains how Movistar designed an open source serverless architecture using OpenFaaS on top of Kubernetes and other complementary technologies like NoSQL, brokers to deploy Telegram AI chatbots. Sergio then compares these technologies to "vendor lock-in" services offered by major cloud providers.
OpenSource AIOps - How to Kickstart your Journey

OpenSource AIOps - How to Kickstart your Journey

January 19, 2020

As IT operations become more agile and complex, at the same time the need to enhance operational efficiency and intelligence grows. The term AIOps is often mentioned in this context, as it promises to …
An emerging architecture pattern for Agile integration: Cell-based architecture (sponsored by WSO2)

An emerging architecture pattern for Agile integration: Cell-based architecture (sponsored by WSO2)

January 18, 2020

The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily, and service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. Asanka Abeysinghe discusses how a cell-based architecture can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues.
Architecting for testing and continuous delivery

Architecting for testing and continuous delivery

January 17, 2020

Most organizations want faster, more-incremental delivery of their applications, but fragile tests and complex continuous delivery pipelines often make this difficult. What if the problem isnt the pipeline but the architecture of the system? Ken Mugrage details the architectural choices that will help you enable stable tests and faster pipelines.
The architecture manifest: Principles of architecture design in Agile environments

The architecture manifest: Principles of architecture design in Agile environments

January 15, 2020

Valentina Rodriquez shares a manifest describing a set of principles to design high-quality architectures. If you're planning to change your career or just want to improve your architect skills, join in.
Leveraging metadata for automating delivery and operations of advanced data platforms

Leveraging metadata for automating delivery and operations of advanced data platforms

January 9, 2020

Peter Billen explains how to use metadata to automate delivery and operations of a data platform. By injecting automation into the delivery processes, you shorten the time to market while improving the quality of the initial user experience. Typical examples include data profiling and prototyping, test automation, continuous delivery and deployment, and automated code creation.
An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile Integration: Cell-based Architecture

An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile Integration: Cell-based Architecture

December 29, 2019

The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A …
DevOps for Networking

DevOps for Networking

December 28, 2019

To demonstrate the power of DevOps tool we have deployed a web-based ticket booking website using GIT, Ansible, Vagrant, Docker, Jenkins and Kubernetes.DevOps is a new methodology that combines devel …
Tars for FinTech

Tars for FinTech

December 26, 2019

Tars, a high-performance microservice framework, supports mainstream and customized protocols and provides an integrated solution of microservices governance for developers and operators. With support …
Cloud Native Survival Kit

Cloud Native Survival Kit

December 25, 2019

Cloud Native is more than a tool set. It is a full architecture, a philosophical approach for building applications that take full advantage of cloud computing. Going Cloud Native requires an organiza …
(Continuous) threat modeling: What works?

(Continuous) threat modeling: What works?

December 19, 2019

Threat modeling as a discipline has always enjoyed a special place in development, going from "Why do it?" to "I should do it one of these days" to "We did it and didn't even get a T-shirt." Many competing methodologies, interests, and constraints help make the process more difficult than it needs to be, reducing the results. Izar Tarandach shares the approach Autodesk uses for threat modeling.
An emerging architecture pattern for Agile integration: Cell-based architecture (sponsored by WSO2)

An emerging architecture pattern for Agile integration: Cell-based architecture (sponsored by WSO2)

December 19, 2019

A cell-based architecture is a composable unit of architecture that is self-contained. The cell is independently scalable. Its independently deployable. Its independently governed. It's part of an ecosystem of cells. Asanka Abeysinghe explains how to use a cell-based architecture to connect architecture, implementation, and deployment by making autonomous development teams.
Architecting for news recommendations: The many hidden colors of the Gray Lady

Architecting for news recommendations: The many hidden colors of the Gray Lady

December 18, 2019

When personalizing for news platforms, you must pay attention to both the audience and the content. Much like most software architecture systems, readers and news content should not be treated as a monolith. Katerina Iliakopoulou details the architecture of a system that facilitates agile personalization on the New York Timess platforms to accommodate fast A/B testing.