Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))
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Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))
Just as DevOps lets us manage a seamless flow of capability creation, our IT systems architecture now consists of a seamless blend of components. It has become difficult to say where one product ends and another begins. The digital world is one of continuous, rather than discrete, elements.
Mark Schwartz • War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
A corollary of Conway’s Law is that an organization’s structures themselves can be constrained by the architectures that they designed many years earlier. And without intentional action, it’s a Catch-22. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them,” Einstein said. An example of this antipattern is a mi
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(1) The separation between storage and compute , as encouraged by data lake architectures (e.g. the implementation of P would look different in a traditional database like PostgreSQL, or a cloud warehouse like Snowflake). This architecture is the focus of the current system, and it is prevalent in most mid-to-large enterprises (its benefits that be... See more
Jacopo Tagliabue • Reproducible data science over data lakes: replayable data pipelines with Bauplan and Nessie.
At a more technical level, the drive for better testability and deployability (particularly testability) encourages engineers to design systems that separate essential and accidental complexity more effectively. This in turn keeps your options more open for changes, even quite radical changes, in other architectural properties of the system. This a
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