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AoAD2 Practice: Evolutionary System Architecture

James Shore

Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture? By system architecture, I mean all the components that make up your deployed system. When you do, you get evolutionary system architecture. This is a decidedly unfashionable approach to system architecture.

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Evaluating a Microservice Architecture

Tandem

Microservice architecture has been a hot topic in the realm of software development for a while now. It’s often portrayed as a revolutionary method for constructing software systems that are scalable, adaptable, and efficient. However, like any technology, it has its strengths and weaknesses.

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Revolutionize your site for growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction with composable architecture

CIO

In the realm of systems, this translates to leveraging architectural patterns that prioritize modularity, scalability, and adaptability. Headless, composable architectures are helping businesses select best-of-breed products and compose them into a system that aligns with business goals. What is a composable architecture?

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Understanding Microservices

Mentormate

Architecture Patterns. Architecture patterns can influence the success of a project as well as the ability to deliver new features in the future and the degree of flexibility of the business. The architecture choice helps us optimize the work for different targets: speed of delivery, budget, flexibility, etc.

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Top Disadvantages to Adopting Microservices (And Why You Should Do It Anyway)

OverOps

Microservices is a thought model that promises to bring us closer to that goal. By breaking up an application into specialized containers designed to perform a specific task or process, microservices enable each component to operate independently. What Makes Microservices Hard? What makes Microservices hard?

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Building Modern Enterprise Architecture: How To Turn An Elephant Into A Streak Of Cheetahs

Crunchbase News

Lightbulb moment Most enterprise applications are built like elephants: Giant databases, high CPU machines, an inside data center, blocking architecture, heavy contracts and more. You can get infrastructure as code with the click of a button and create a distributed architecture that makes sense for your business.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.