Technology Strategy and Architecture

There is a long list of things I love about visual discovery and modelling techniques like Event Storming and Example Mapping. But there is…

In business, technology and general, the word “domain” appears frequently and with many different meanings in various contexts. This gets…

Where to begin modernizing your architecture? Is playing it safe the best way to start, or are there advantages to taking a few risks?

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for…

The microservices era has been good for software architecture. I remember when the idea of multiple databases was punishable by death. But…

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude…

In February 2012 I began working for a new company. On my first day, I deployed to production. I was lost for words. It felt like magic…

Sometimes we need to stop fighting the symptoms and recognise that there is a more fundamental problem. Commonly, the fundamental problems…

As a system grows, higher-order abstractions are needed for ease of understanding, communication, and management. In Geography, continents…

The systems we build are composed of many pieces. From mobile apps, to domains, to user journeys. How should we slice up the system and…

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. The next step is to determine…

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain…

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. Enterprise Architects take a broad look at an…

Back in the summer I shared some of the techniques I’d been using to reimagine my in-person architecture workshops as remote digital…

Don’t let the tools you use overly-constrain your thinking. Use them as a starting point for design and discovery, and then bend them to…

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. And the problem may be growing. Systems are…

As an architect, how often are you thinking about business models? If every significant architecture decision has business consequences…

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some points as their systems drift into a state of intolerable…

Recently I ran a fully remote, 2 full-day, Strategic Domain-Driven Design workshop using Miro. This was necessitated by Covid. All my…

A free Miro whiteboard containing a selection of Strategic DDD tools for remote collaboration.

Both in the short-term and the long-term, there is a need for effective collaborative domain modelling techniques for remote teams.

Visualise your team’s process and you’ll uncover a higher quantity and higher quality opportunities for improving how you work as a team…

I’ve been disappointed for a long time with the way in which companies organise software development teams.

Sometimes you should design your bounded contexts like a physical library, preferring commands over events.