Why is software development so difficult? A major reason is that you spend more time reading than writing code. If you can decrease the time required to read existing code, you can increase productivity. You can decrease the time you waste reading complicated code by writing code that’s easy to read – code that fits … Fractal Software Architecture Read More » The post Fractal Software Architecture first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

Event-driven architectures can help reduce coupling and increase agility for developers building distributed applications. But success here requires a new mindset to help you implement documentation, tracing, and effective scaling. In this session, you will learn the best practices to adopting and promoting this new mindset in a development team. Video producer: https://gotoldn.com/ The post Best Practices to Design & Build Event-Driven Applications first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

During the talk – or live coding explaining everything that is done on non-developers level – the presenter introduces a little business change in a mobile iOS application code made in TCA+SwiftUI, thus showing how big impact modern software architecture has on software development. Key perspectives will cover: designing UI code with real time rendering, … How Software Architecture Increases Agility Read More » The post How Software Architecture Increases Agility first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

Learn about social skills to become a great software architect and even some concrete techniques to make better decisions. Software architecture is very simple: You only have to split up one system and use modern approaches such as DDD or Microservices. This presentation shows completely different qualifications that a good software architect must have. The … How to Become a Great Software Architect Read More » The post How to Become a Great Software Architect first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

Document databases enable an extremely flexible data model for faster and more iterative development. At the same time, however, the data model you design can seriously speed up or slow down your application. While flexibility is great in theory, it is not practical in reality. If you are wondering as a software developer how to … The Software Developer Guide to Data Modelling Document Databases Read More » The post The Software Developer Guide to Data Modelling Document Databases first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

The book Enterprise Architecture for Integration by Clive Finkelstein presents a top-down approach to define an information system architecture at the enterprise level. It begins with a short presentation of the Zachman Framework that is used as the basic tool to analyze enterprise architecture. A first part is then devoted to present approaches used to … Enterprise Architecture for Integration Read More » The post Enterprise Architecture for Integration first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

What is Software Architecture? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. We can describe software architecture patterns and argue about what is the best software architecture, but in reality, most definitions are vague enough to be unhelpful or so over the top to be more like a list of everything that you need to think … How to Understand and Choose the Right Software Architecture Read More » The post How to Understand and Choose the Right Software Architecture first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

Step back from your system and take a look at its software architecture. Are the major structures and technology choices the result of conscious decisions, or have they emerged as the system has evolved? Software architecture is often an ad hoc, responsive process where designs get stuck in local minima while ever more features are … Deliberate Software Architecture Read More » The post Deliberate Software Architecture first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

What is Software Architecture? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. We can describe software architecture patterns and argue about what is the best software architecture, but in reality, most definitions are vague enough to be unhelpful or so over the top to be more like a list of everything that you need to think … What Software Architecture Should Look Like Read More » The post What Software Architecture Should Look Like first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more

“The Art of Visualising Software Architecture” is a book written by Simon Brown to discuss the problem of the representation of software architecture. For the author, software developers mostly lack the skills needed for an effective visual communication of their software architecture. The book splits the software architecture in four layers: context, container, component and … The Art of Visualising Software Architecture Read More » The post The Art of Visualising Software Architecture first appeared on Software Architecture & Design ..read more