Business Data and How to Manage it
Business Data management is the organisation of people, processes and technologies to create and maintain a reliable data environment for business.
What are Patterns?
Patterns are visual models to base designs and solutions on. Different patterns provide different assumptions, but in general, they all represent a simplified ideal.
Explaining Principles
Decentralised decision making is a critical ability for organisations that want to move fast, and disrupt their markets. - James Brewster, just now.
Overview of the Architecture Practice
Software and systems architects provide guidance and governance of a technology organisation by modelling the organisation, its departments, capabilities, and processes and then mapping technology into them to ensure that the business has an optimised environment, which can adapt to its needs and isn't onerous to look after.
Agile Architecture - A short story
The team worked on a new business application allowing customers to order products online and track their delivery status. The application needed to integrate with several external systems, such as inventory management, payment processing, and shipping providers. The team had to decide how to design the integration layer and what technologies to use.
Architecture Decision Records
Architectural decision records (ADRs) capture a crucial technical decision, the context in which it was made, and the consequences of the decision. They are used to record the project’s architectural thinking and conclusions for further reference and to help new team members understand the rationale behind the design choices.
Architecture Review Board
A frequent perception of ARBs from Agile teams is poor and that they delay decisions and delivery. Properly implemented, an ARB allows an organisation to be more open and transparent and can empower local decision-making within a team or POD.
The Agile ARB
Sara was the chair of the Architecture Review Board (ARB) at Acme Inc., a software company that had adopted agile methods. She was passionate about creating a culture of trust and collaboration among the different teams and departments. She wanted the ARB to be a facilitator rather than a gatekeeper of decisions.
Identity, Authentication and Authorisation
This pattern describes a central authentication model suitable for a microservices web application. It builds on several other designs to provide a scalable way to identify, authenticate and authorise access to resources, data and services.
Dumb Pipes
As services scale in a microservices architecture, they need to communicate. A communication network is essential to ensure each service can easily talk to the others. Still, as they scale, you must ensure they can grow and continue communicating.