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Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes
Dynamic IT professional with a proven track record in optimizing production processes and analyzing outages in complex systems handling millions of TPS. The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the importance of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices. Passionate about elevating operational excellence through strategic reviews and effective process enhancements.
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How to Make Technical Debt Your Friend
Technical debt is a popular metaphor for communicating the long-term implications of architectural decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders. By exploiting the feedback mechanism of the Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) approach, we have concluded that the technical debt metaphor is misleading because much of the so-called debt never needs to be, and in fact isn’t, repaid.
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Simplicity, Speed, and Re-Use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months
In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. A small team was assembled to take on that challenge, and we shipped a new social network in July. This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year.
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Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses
Incidents are often perceived as extraordinary aberrations, unconnected to "normal" work. For over twenty years, the field of Resilience Engineering has aimed at flipping this approach around — by understanding what makes incidents so rare (relative to when and how they do not happen) and so minor (relative to how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.
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Architectural Retrospectives: the Key to Getting Better at Architecting
The purpose of an architectural retrospective is to use experience to help the development team improve their architecting skills and their way of working as they make architectural decisions. This is different than traditional architecture reviews which are focused on improving the architecture.
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Thinking Like an Architect
By explaining the roles of an architect and the concept of connecting levels, Gregor Hohpe delves into the importance of metaphors for making complex technical concepts more relatable and sketches for abstracting and capturing the essence of complex systems.
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Scaling Challenges: Productivity, Cost Efficiency, and Microservice Management
The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline. By examining challenges such as managing peak transaction volumes and orchestrating microservice architectures, we aim to uncover the valuable lessons learned and insights gained from Trainline's journey through the dynamic landscape of digital transportation platforms.
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Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures
In this article, Bernd Ruecker explores the importance of long-running processes in various applications, particularly in distributed systems. He emphasizes the value of asynchronous communication and explores strategies like Centers of Excellence, along with visual tools like BPMN for enhancing communication and understanding. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.
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How to Architect Software for a Greener Future
In this article, Sara Bergman shares tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future. Bergman has been discussing this topic for several years.
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Ownership and Human Involvement in Interface Design
Good interface design is a complex engineering challenge with many dimensions. This article explores the key dimensions of Ownership and whether a Human is involved.
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Using Generative AI in Software Project Management to Bridge Domains and Accelerate Productivity
Gen AI Assistants play to the strengths of professionals with a breadth of experience, particularly software developers who can describe what they want the LLM to complete and critically evaluate the result. These tools enable us to swiftly cross divides of domain language and scale large repetitive tasks down to interesting ones on a human scale.
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Delivering Great Developer Experiences with Platform Engineering
Companies increasingly turn to platform engineering to help scale their development teams and increase developer experience for engineer efficiency. In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.