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"tag:"architecture""
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How much architecture is enough?
Thanks to everybody that came along to our "in *our* brains" session last week where we tried to answer the question of how much architecture is enough. The event was part of Skills Matter's London Agile Month and it was a great turnout where we had some ... |
08-Sep-2008 17:01:00 |
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Discussion from the May 2008 user group
Although this happened a few months ago, we recorded the discussion that followed our London user group where Moudud Ahmed talked about building a high volume, low latency system in Java. Here are some of the topics that we talked about. Performance ... |
30-Aug-2008 07:57:27 |
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Mind the gap
Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software architect role, with many organisations dismissing it because of their negative experiences of architects that dictate from "ivory towers" and aren't engaged with the actual task of building ... |
02-May-2008 11:58:03 |
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What is architecture?
Architecture is a widely-used term within software development yet is very hard to define rigorously. Indeed, it changes meaning from domain to domain, company to company, project to project and even from employee to employee. Read the full essay in ... |
02-May-2008 11:53:54 |
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How big is your software architecture document?
I'm going to write-up my notes from the last London user group (Sharing Architectures) later in the week, but I wanted to pose a question to you that I asked at the user group. How big is your software architecture document for your current ... |
16-Apr-2008 21:30:00 |
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Sharing architectures
The last user group session may have seen a small turnout, but we did have some interesting discussion about sharing architecture. Here are my notes. Architecture document should outline decisions and their implications - get people to sign-up ... |
16-Apr-2008 14:17:00 |
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Is UML on the way out?
One of the presenters at QCon (I think it was John Davies) asked the audience whether they used UML 2.0 and only a couple of people raised their hands. I wasn't one of them - I briefly looked at UML 2.0 a while back but I didn't feel compelled enough to ... |
03-Apr-2008 20:32:00 |
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London User Group - April 2008
Here are the details of the April London User Group. Title : Sharing Architectures Summary : The transition from architectural vision to production code is not always an easy one. Of course we plan for a certain amount of change and accept that some ... |
26-Mar-2008 17:23:00 |
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Software Architecture Document Guidelines
Regardless of the development process that you use, a description of the software architecture can be essential for any project, big or small. If software architecture is about the structure of a system and is the vehicle for satisfying the requirements, ... |
18-Mar-2008 15:36:00 |
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London User Group - March 2008
Here are the details of the March Coding the Architecture London User Group. Title : An architecture case study Summary : This session will present a case study of a small tactical software system, which was deployed into production in just two ... |
21-Feb-2008 20:20:00 |
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How much software design detail in your architecture document?
I led an architecture discussion at a major bank last week and one of the questions that came up was, "how much detail do you put in your software architecture document?". Specifically, the question was focussed on the software design aspects of the ... |
18-Jan-2008 12:14:00 |
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Architectural Assumptions
Most of the systems I've worked on in the recent past have been latency rather than throughput orientated. However my current project is definitely throughput focused and scales horizontally rather than vertically (this is a simplification but basically ... |
24-Dec-2007 12:44:59 |
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What about the application tier?!
I've recently become involved in a project with a very clear idea of its functional and data requirements - so much so that the presentation technology has been selected and the database vendor and schema determined. The suppliers of these have also been ... |
24-Sep-2007 16:05:32 |
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Designing the tactical solution
In my previous post I asserted that there's really no such thing as a tactical solution, but what should you do if you are asked to design one? Before I answer that, let's summarise what a tactical solution is all about. ... a tactical solution can be ... |
27-Jun-2007 21:16:00 |
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Is Enterprise Architecture the next step?
Following on from Role titles across the world, I wanted to present a diagram that I've had in my head for a little while but never got around to putting on paper. I think architecture at the application and system level is pretty well defined, with an ... |
18-May-2007 11:28:13 |
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Book Review: 'Software Systems Architecture - Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives'
This is a book that I wish I'd been able to read years ago because it widens the reader's horizon to include aspects of getting a system designed and built that as a developer you take for granted. That said, it's a book that particularly resonates once ... |
18-Mar-2007 16:26:00 |
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What is architecture?
Here's a short definition of architecture that somebody made after a presentation Paul and I did last week. Architecture is the stuff that you can't refactor in an afternoon. I got a kind of "yeah, that's actually about right" feeling. What do you ... |
15-Feb-2006 14:51:43 |
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How many layers?
Here's (the paraphrased version of) a comment that I heard recently about the role of an architect that piqued my interest. "being an architect is about ensuring separation of concerns using layering" It's true that separation of concerns is a Good ... |
08-Feb-2006 09:54:03 |
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The Top Ten Ways to Botch an Enterprise Java Application
If you're planning on heading to JavaOne this year, Cameron Purdy will be presenting what sounds like a very interesting talk on the top ten ways to botch an enterprise Java application. From his blog... Two of my presentations were accepted for ... |
25-Jan-2006 13:28:33 |
