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Agile Book Club: System Architecture

James Shore

But what about the components that make up a deployed system? Those components and interactions form your system architecture. Evolutionary System Architecture. ?? Discussion prompts: How have you seen teams approach designing system architecture? Doc Norton joins us to explore this question further.

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AoAD2 Practice: Evolutionary System Architecture

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture?

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Building Docker images for multiple operating system architectures

CircleCI

For instance, developing an application on Windows and deploying it to Linux and macOS machines involves provisioning and configuring build machines for each of the operating systems and architecture platforms you’re targeting. That’s why it’s a common practice to build releases for many different platforms.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. -- Melvin Conway. Conway's Law is essentially the observation that the architectures of software systems look remarkably similar to the organization of the development team that built it.

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Diagramming System Architecture in 5 Simple Steps

Tandem

As part of our final project handoff to Tandem clients, we provide a diagram of the product’s architecture — a visual depiction of the various systems, platforms, and tools that work together to support a software product. Here’s how we create system architecture diagrams. Software products are often complex.

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TDD and System Architecture

Net Objectives

When first adopting TDD, developers can run into some roadblocks that seem to indicate that TDD is a difficult process. In truth, some of these problems actually indicate faults in the system architecture.

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Top Disadvantages to Adopting Microservices (And Why You Should Do It Anyway)

OverOps

Technological development is constantly accelerating and readjusting itself to achieve the desired results faster, cheaper and better than before. Transitioning from monolithic to containerized infrastructure is a fundamental change in the way we develop software. The rise of containerization didn’t happen in a vacuum.