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Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a serious responsibility on our profession. Whether asked to or not, we have a duty to ensure our systems don’t degrade our society. MORE
Unmesh Joshi is ready to start the New Year with a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems. With this one he attempts the tricky task of explaining Paxos. MORE
While we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech debt. They are the reason that things just take longer now than they used to. more…. MORE
The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records , which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process. more…. skip-home-page MORE
“Build versus buy” decisions are everywhere today, and rightly so. Building software is risky and expensive, and software product companies can spread that risk and expense across multiple customers. MORE
Tim finishes his article by looking at how highly effective organizations design their engineering organization to optimize for effectiveness and feedback loops. MORE
Like many modern software architects, Andrew Harmel-Law struggles with the need to scale architectural thinking to larger organizations while allowing teams to be as autonomous as possible. MORE
Andrew's fourth supporting element for the Advice Process is using a tech radar to capture and map out your local version of the technology trends you see across your organization. more…. skip-home-page MORE
To illustrate how these patterns work in practice, Ian, Rob, and James describe an example of how one of our teams used a number of Legacy Modernization Patterns to successfully replace integration middleware critical to the operation of their client's business as part of a larger legacy modernization programme. MORE
Last year, my colleague Zhamak Dehghani introduced the notion of the Data Mesh , shifting from the notion of a centralized data lake to a distributed vision of data. MORE
Continuing his exploration of important patterns to maintain consistency across a cluster, Unmesh Joshi now looks at Two Phase Commit. It's broadly the most familiar approach, but comes with lots of complexities to make it work in practice over unreliable networks. MORE
When you are using Leaders and Followers, you can use Follower Reads to achieve better throughput and lower latency. However there is always a replication lag between the leader and the followers, so you may need to take action to preserve consistency. more…. skip-home-page MORE
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James Shore has revised his book "The Art of Agile Development". I'm pleased to write a foreword for this book as it is solid guide to learning how to get past faux-agile and develop the skills you need to get the benefits of the agile way of work. MORE
Good technical design decisions are very dependent on context. Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly. MORE
My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs. MORE
I've written a fair bit about how using pull requests can encourage a low integration frequency, reducing cycle time and discouraging refactoring. MORE
Many commercial integration tools market their ability to own the integration landscape and call out to general purpose languages as needed. MORE
Integrating the necessary security controls and audit capabilities to satisfy compliance requirements within a DevOps culture can capitalize on CI/CD pipeline automation, but presents unique challenges as an organization scales. MORE
My colleagues do a lot of work that involves replacing legacy software systems. Three of my colleagues - Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis - have started to capture their experience and advice for this is a collection of patterns. MORE
Next distributed system pattern from Unmesh is the Lamport Clock. Distributed systems can't assume that time is consistent between servers, and sometimes time goes backwards. Yet it's important to have some way to order events. more…. skip-home-page MORE
There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests. MORE
Clients are interested in changes to the specific values on the server. It's difficult for clients to structure their logic if they need to poll the server continuously to look for changes. If clients open too many connections to the server for watching changes, it can overwhelm the server. more…. MORE
Business Leaders often need to make decisions that are influenced by a wide range of activity throughout the whole enterprise. MORE
We often need to access APIs from foreign codebases, and these foreign codebases usually have different vocabularies to ours. I've found it useful to encapsulate this interaction with a gateway that translates between our code and foreign code. MORE
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Brandon finishes his article on how we should look at integration by arguing that it is a strategic element of an enterprise's infrastructure. MORE
Andrew finishes his article on how to scale software architecture by looking at how this technique works in practice , and also outlines how things can go wrong. more…. skip-home-page MORE
Recently there's been a lot of interest, indeed hype, around building developer productivity platforms. Done well, they make it easier for developers to build systems aligned with the technology strategy and allow them to build useful features more quickly. MORE
Having architectural principles is not new, but in a world of highly-autonomous-teams they become essential because they are the means by which an aligned delivery direction is achieved without the need for control. MORE
215 Thus far, Brandon has has explained why general purpose languages are better for integration. In this latest installment he explains that there are cases when commercial integration tools make sense. more…. skip-home-page MORE
Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis are also back with the New Year with a couple more articles from Patterns of Legacy Displacement in the funnel for the next couple of weeks. MORE
I listen to a lot of interesting music, so picked out my six favorite. new-to-me albums this year. I hope you find something interesting to groove to in there. MORE
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On many occasions when my colleagues find themselves talking to IT executives they hear how the executives have a suite of aging applications built using soon to be, if not already end of life technologies. MORE
Yesterday Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis. described the Critical Aggregator and how it can metastasize into an invasive form. MORE
One of the core challenges in a distributed system is keeping the state synchronized across all the nodes, especially when neither the nodes, or the connections between them, are reliable. The core approach to handle with is a replicated log : using the write-ahead log pattern over the cluster. MORE
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2022
Unmesh Joshi is ready to start the New Year with a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems. With this one he attempts the tricky task of explaining Paxos.
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Many commercial integration tools market their ability to own the integration landscape and call out to general purpose languages as needed.
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Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
“Build versus buy” decisions are everywhere today, and rightly so. Building software is risky and expensive, and software product companies can spread that risk and expense across multiple customers.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Like many modern software architects, Andrew Harmel-Law struggles with the need to scale architectural thinking to larger organizations while allowing teams to be as autonomous as possible.
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 11, 2022
One of the core challenges in a distributed system is keeping the state synchronized across all the nodes, especially when neither the nodes, or the connections between them, are reliable. The core approach to handle with is a replicated log : using the write-ahead log pattern over the cluster.
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 1, 2021
The Advice Process works when supported by four elements. Andrew describes the first of these, Decision Records , which act as a tool for thinking about and recording the decision process. more…. skip-home-page
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 1, 2021
While we have historically drawn up our project plans and costs around the boxes—the digital products we are introducing—the lines are the hidden and often primary driver of organizational tech debt. They are the reason that things just take longer now than they used to. more….
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Having architectural principles is not new, but in a world of highly-autonomous-teams they become essential because they are the means by which an aligned delivery direction is achieved without the need for control.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Good technical design decisions are very dependent on context. Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly.
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Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Thus far, Brandon has has explained why general purpose languages are better for integration. In this latest installment he explains that there are cases when commercial integration tools make sense. more…. skip-home-page
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 19, 2022
Business Leaders often need to make decisions that are influenced by a wide range of activity throughout the whole enterprise.
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Andrew finishes his article on how to scale software architecture by looking at how this technique works in practice , and also outlines how things can go wrong. more…. skip-home-page
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Andrew's fourth supporting element for the Advice Process is using a tech radar to capture and map out your local version of the technology trends you see across your organization. more…. skip-home-page
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Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Brandon finishes his article on how we should look at integration by arguing that it is a strategic element of an enterprise's infrastructure.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 20, 2022
Yesterday Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis. described the Critical Aggregator and how it can metastasize into an invasive form.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Integrating the necessary security controls and audit capabilities to satisfy compliance requirements within a DevOps culture can capitalize on CI/CD pipeline automation, but presents unique challenges as an organization scales.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 12, 2022
Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis are also back with the New Year with a couple more articles from Patterns of Legacy Displacement in the funnel for the next couple of weeks.
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Martin Fowler
JULY 29, 2021
To illustrate how these patterns work in practice, Ian, Rob, and James describe an example of how one of our teams used a number of Legacy Modernization Patterns to successfully replace integration middleware critical to the operation of their client's business as part of a larger legacy modernization programme.
Martin Fowler
JULY 20, 2021
My colleagues do a lot of work that involves replacing legacy software systems. Three of my colleagues - Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis - have started to capture their experience and advice for this is a collection of patterns.
Martin Fowler
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
I've written a fair bit about how using pull requests can encourage a low integration frequency, reducing cycle time and discouraging refactoring.
Martin Fowler
JUNE 2, 2021
There are arguments about whether a testing portfolio should be a pyramid or more like honeycomb. My second biggest issue with this argument is that it's rendered opaque by the fact that it's not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.
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Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a serious responsibility on our profession. Whether asked to or not, we have a duty to ensure our systems don’t degrade our society.
Martin Fowler
AUGUST 10, 2021
We often need to access APIs from foreign codebases, and these foreign codebases usually have different vocabularies to ours. I've found it useful to encapsulate this interaction with a gateway that translates between our code and foreign code.
Martin Fowler
OCTOBER 26, 2021
James Shore has revised his book "The Art of Agile Development". I'm pleased to write a foreword for this book as it is solid guide to learning how to get past faux-agile and develop the skills you need to get the benefits of the agile way of work.
Martin Fowler
JULY 27, 2021
On many occasions when my colleagues find themselves talking to IT executives they hear how the executives have a suite of aging applications built using soon to be, if not already end of life technologies.
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 5, 2021
My colleague Tim Cochran has helped many software engineering organizations transform to respond faster to changing market needs.
Martin Fowler
APRIL 27, 2021
Recently there's been a lot of interest, indeed hype, around building developer productivity platforms. Done well, they make it easier for developers to build systems aligned with the technology strategy and allow them to build useful features more quickly.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 19, 2021
Clients are interested in changes to the specific values on the server. It's difficult for clients to structure their logic if they need to poll the server continuously to look for changes. If clients open too many connections to the server for watching changes, it can overwhelm the server. more….
Martin Fowler
JULY 1, 2021
When you are using Leaders and Followers, you can use Follower Reads to achieve better throughput and lower latency. However there is always a replication lag between the leader and the followers, so you may need to take action to preserve consistency. more…. skip-home-page
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Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 26, 2021
I listen to a lot of interesting music, so picked out my six favorite. new-to-me albums this year. I hope you find something interesting to groove to in there.
Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Last year, my colleague Zhamak Dehghani introduced the notion of the Data Mesh , shifting from the notion of a centralized data lake to a distributed vision of data.
Martin Fowler
JUNE 23, 2021
Next distributed system pattern from Unmesh is the Lamport Clock. Distributed systems can't assume that time is consistent between servers, and sometimes time goes backwards. Yet it's important to have some way to order events. more…. skip-home-page
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 26, 2021
Tim finishes his article by looking at how highly effective organizations design their engineering organization to optimize for effectiveness and feedback loops.
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