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Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role

This article explores the cultural change of moving towards shared architecture, and the role that the architect has evolved into; from one with an air of authority and singular vision, to one in which system design issues are surfaced, which require team-wide input to resolve. Teams being coached and guided towards shared ownership might be struggling with the paradigm shift of ownership.

Leigh Griffin Chris Foley
on Dec 09, 2022
Cloud

Colliding Communities, Cloud Native, and Telecommunications Standards

What happens when an ecosystem driven from the bottom up collides with a community characterized by top-down development? The 5g broadband cellular network standard by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) standard by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Service Function Chain RFC (request for comments) are examples.

W. Watson
on Dec 07, 2022
DevOps

Adopting Low Code/No Code: Six Fitnesses to Look For

When selecting a no-code/low-code platform, six key fitnesses should be examined: purpose fit, cost fit, ops fit, user fit, use-case fit, and organization fit. The IT team should be heavily involved in this decision as they play a pivotal role in helping citizen developers with platform adoption.

Arunkumar Arunachalam
on Dec 05, 2022
Architecture & Design

What Does Technical Debt Tell You?

Technical debt is a popular metaphor for communicating the long-term implications of architectural decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders, but there are limitations to its usefulness. Incorporating quality attribute requirements, or using a different metaphor such as deferred maintenance, can help improve decision making.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Dec 02, 2022
Culture & Methods

Enabling Effective Remote Working - Principles and Patterns from Team Topologies

This article shares ideas, principles, and practices from Team Topologies (and related topics) to help organizations approach their structures' design and evolution to better support interactions in remote working. It also shares examples to showcase their impact when used to better approach organizational design, in general, and particularly to support remote working.

Eduardo da Silva Rich Allen
on Dec 01, 2022
Cloud

Using Serverless WebSockets to Enable Real-Time Messaging

This article reviews some of the most common live-user experiences with examples, discusses event-driven architectures to support real-time updates, and introduces common technology choices.

Matthew O’Riordan
on Dec 01, 2022
DevOps

API Security: from Defense-in-Depth (DiD) to Zero Trust

Nearly all companies have experienced security incidents but few have an API security policy that includes dedicated API testing and protection. A defense-in-depth approach that includes boundary defense, observability, and authentication is recommended.

Ming Wen
on Nov 30, 2022
Java

Java Champion Josh Long on Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3

Microservices show where Java lags behind other languages. Reactive programming provides a concise DSL to express the movement of state and to write concurrent, multithreaded code with better scaling. Developing in Spring Boot works well even without special tooling support. Josh Long is excited about Project Loom, Java optimization in Project Leyden, and Foreign-Function access in Project Panama.

Josh Long Karsten Silz
on Nov 24, 2022
Culture & Methods

Craftleadership: Craft Your Leadership as Developers Craft Code

Learning software craftership made me reconsider how I wrote code. Being an experienced software team manager, I try to reevaluate my management practices in the same way: what could test-driven management or pair-management be? Here I propose different insights on how software craftership tools and mindset are transposable to the management domain.

Edouard Gomez-Vaëz
on Nov 22, 2022
Culture & Methods

Are Your “Value Streams” Keeping You Stuck in the Past?

The essence of business agility is being able to respond quickly and systematically to feedback. As a means of achieving business agility, value stream management falls short, and ends up being not very different from what organizations have done for a long time: using program management practices to coordinate work across different teams in a large organization.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Nov 10, 2022 3
DevOps

The Future of DevOps is No-Code

The need for high-quality DevOps personnel is skyrocketing, but it is harder than ever to find enough staff. It is possible to augment your DevOps organization using no-code and low-code tooling. Low-code and no-code tools can free up existing developers by reducing the time spent on integrating and administering DevOps toolsets.

Nahla Davies
on Nov 07, 2022 13
Development

Build, Test, and Deploy Scalable REST APIs in Go

In this article, we'll look at how to use the gin framework to create a simple Go application. We will also learn how to use CircleCI, a continuous deployment tool, to automate testing and deployment.

Oghenevwede Emeni
on Nov 02, 2022