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From Dependency to Autonomy: Building an In-House E-signing Service
While many companies rely on third-party services, there’s a growing realization that an in-house solution can offer more control, flexibility, and cost savings. In this article, we’ll delve into how to build an e-signing microservice.
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The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
Taking sides in the debate of microservices v. monolith gets in the way of doing the right thing for our customers. Sometimes, we need microservices. Sometimes, we need a monolith. Most of the time we are better off somewhere between these extremes.
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Has Your Architectural Decision Record Lost Its Purpose?
Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are important vehicles for communicating the architectural decisions a development team makes about a system. Lacking a clear definition of what is architectural, and also lacking anywhere else to record important decisions, they can start to drift from their original purpose and lose focus and effectiveness.
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How Agile Teams Can Improve Predictability by Measuring Stability
In this article, we will present our approach for analysing agile systems as networks of queues and how we have used it to analyse 926 projects in the Public Jira Dataset. We explain how you can measure the Stability Metric (SM) for your queues. Finally, we will present our planned next phase of research.
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Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations
There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration. This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.
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Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model
Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model.
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Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development
Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.
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Building Kafka Event-Driven Applications with KafkaFlow
KafkaFlow, a .NET open-source project, simplifies Kafka-based event-driven app development with features like middleware for message processing, enhancing maintainability, customization potential, and allowing developers to prioritize business logic.
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Evolving the Federated GraphQL Platform at Netflix
This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development. It also describes how the ecosystem has evolved at various stages of adoption.
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Enhancing Your "Definition of Done" Can Improve Your Minimum Viable Architecture
A Definition of Done describes the criteria that determines whether a software product is releasable. While normally focused on functional aspects of quality, teams can strengthen the quality and sustainability of their products if they expand their DoD to include architectural considerations.
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InfoQ DevOps and Cloud Trends Report – July 2023
InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies.
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Adaptive, Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow: Wardley Maps, DDD, and Team Topologies
Designing for adaptability sounds easier than done. How do you design and build systems that can evolve and thrive in the face of constant change? This article provides a high-level introduction to combining Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies to design and build adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for a fast flow of change.