Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

These include adopting Agile methods, modern engineering practices, DevOps, API design, microservices, and cloud architectures. The post Learning Over Delivery – How Companies Become Learning Organizations with Dojos first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Agile software development and DevOps have become the norm as companies strive to develop better, faster, more flexible applications. Microservices offer the next […]. The post Governing Microservices in an Enterprise Architecture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2023

With digital operating models altering business processes and the IT landscape, enterprise architecture (EA) — a rigid stalwart of IT — has shown signs of evolving as well. The transition from monolith to microservices needs a high level of good governance.” CIO, Enterprise Architecture, IT Leadership says LeanXI’s Christ.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 3, 2021

Are you trying to shift from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture? Maybe you've already moved to agile delivery models, but you're struggling to keep up with the rate of change in the technologies of these systems.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel. MACH […].

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve mentioned IT pendulums plenty of times before, but today I’m going to use them to explore a different angle on IT: The age of containers and microservices. It’s time to ask yourself if the current architectural design of the overall product offering of IT is the best one you can afford to offer. Agile […].

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2025

Because of the adoption of containers, microservices architectures, and CI/CD pipelines, these environments are increasingly complex and noisy. On top of that, IT teams have adopted DevOps, agile and SRE practices that drive much greater frequency of change into IT systems and landscapes.

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Xebia

AUGUST 9, 2024

Microservices architecture has revolutionised how we build software, offering significant advantages such as: Better scalability Technology flexibility Fault isolation Independent deployments These benefits stem from the clear, physical boundaries between different domains, boosting productivity. What is a modular monolith?

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 18, 2024

Incorporating AI into API and microservice architecture design for the Cloud can bring numerous benefits. Automated scaling : AI can monitor usage patterns and automatically scale microservices to meet varying demands, ensuring efficient resource utilization and cost-effectiveness.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With this in mind, we embarked on a digital transformation that enables us to better meet customer needs now and in the future by adopting a lightweight, microservices architecture. We found that being architecturally led elevates the customer and their needs so we can design the right solution for the right problem.

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Perficient

AUGUST 10, 2023

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, choosing the right architectural approach is crucial for building robust and scalable applications. Two popular architectural styles that often come into consideration are Monolithic and Microservice.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

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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Mentormate

AUGUST 30, 2021

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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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In the dynamic realm of software architecture, microservices have emerged as a revolutionary paradigm, offering agility, scalability, and modularity to intricate systems. Let's explore each key strategy for a triumphant microservices architecture deployment.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 6, 2023

Microservices architectures have gained popularity due to their scalability, agility, and flexibility. However, with these architectures' increased distribution and complexity, ensuring robust security measures becomes paramount.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The pursuit of speed and agility in software development has given rise to methodologies and practices that transcend traditional boundaries. In this article, we'll explore the latest advancements in continuous testing, focusing on how it intersects with microservices and serverless architectures.

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Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Microservices architecture has reshaped the way we design and build software, emphasizing scalability, maintainability, and agility. Two frameworks, Dropwizard and Micronaut , have gained prominence in the microservices ecosystem, each offering unique features to simplify and optimize development.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you are living in the same world as I am, you must have heard the latest coding buzzer termed “ microservices ”—a lifeline for developers and enterprise-scale businesses. Over the last few years, microservice architecture emerged to be on top of conventional SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).

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Confluent

JUNE 26, 2019

Microservices have a symbiotic relationship with domain-driven design (DDD)—a design approach where the business domain is carefully modeled in software and evolved over time, independently of the plumbing that makes the system work. In these projects, microservice architectures use Kafka as an event streaming platform.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function.

Architecture 130

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Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 22, 2021

This paper described the concept of distributed application architecture through small self-contained application components deployed across a larger corporate network. Eager to impress my friend, I put down the article and exclaimed: “I know where this is going, microservices.” He smiled and replied, “Look at the published date.”

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OTS Solutions

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Private cloud architecture is an increasingly popular approach to cloud computing that offers organizations greater control, security, and customization over their cloud infrastructure. What is Private Cloud Architecture? Why is Private Cloud Architecture important for Businesses?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Go all-in with modern work processes — particularly agile Another way to ensure IT can more quickly deliver transformative features, functions, and services is to go all-in with modern approaches to work; more specifically, CIOs say that means fully embracing the agile development methodology.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The shift from monolithic architectures to microservices has become a defining feature of modern software development, providing agility, scalability, and improved maintenance. Amazon Motivation for Switch Amazon’s transition was motivated by the limitations posed by its monolithic architecture, primarily scalability challenges.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 22, 2024

From monolithic applications to microservices and cloud-based architectures, the software development landscape is in constant change. These transitions have brought unprecedented opportunities but have also introduced significant complexities. Finally, we’ll take a look at what the future holds for platform engineering.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. A cloud-native architecture, which is designed for openness, makes that possible.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Initially, our industry relied on monolithic architectures, where the entire application was a single, simple, cohesive unit. Ever increasing complexity To overcome these limitations, we transitioned to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). On top of that, a single bug in the software could take down an entire system.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. Microservices allow teams to deploy and scale parts of their application independently, improving agility and reducing the complexity of updates and scaling.

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James Shore

MAY 31, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Evolutionary System Architecture. Simplicity is a key Agile idea, as discussed in “Key Idea: Simplicity” on p.XX. What about your system architecture? When you do, you get evolutionary system architecture.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 26, 2019

I’ve been involved in several transformations over the years, from DevOps to Digital to Agile. These transformations typically focus on transitioning people into near-autonomous teams of no more than eight people who will work in an agile manner. I mostly used what is already in my experience report and rewrote some words.

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Perficient

AUGUST 21, 2023

If you’ve been following Sitecore’s architectural movement over the last few years, a lot has changed. However, with a composable architecture, your organization can easily utilize another enterprise product in place of Sitecore’s offering, and this kind of flexibility is integrated into the very nature of a composable architecture.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been thinking about Agile architecture recently, since a seasoned consultant friend (Payson Hall of Catalysis, Inc.) As a former developer I am completely on board with Agile principles as a means of organizing a development team. sent me a literal cry for help. Children running around…” I love it!

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

Designing software that is flexible and changeable is arguably the most important architectural property. However, if we optimise our architecture for change (evolvability), when we discover a performance issue or a security vulnerability we can change our system to help address it. Without mandating a specific architecture (e.g.

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