As a software developer, you may have heard the terms “Microservices” and “Service-Oriented Architecture” (SOA) in the past. You have tried to understand them by googling and asking people and that only resulted in either an incomplete picture of how it works or, more likely, a bunch of wildly varied and even conflicting information. Or […]
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As the prison sentence of Volkswagen software engineer James Liang has shown, software architecture can have far-reaching legal and ethical consequences. And although few software architects will ever be involved in ethical dilemmas of the magnitude Mr. Liang had to deal with, most of us will at some time or other be involved in architectural
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How should we consider the Internet of Things (IoT) from a software architecture point of view? IOT has become omnipresent in our life: billions of sensors and devices acquire trillions of gigabyte of data and provide them for intelligent analysis. To let farmers know when they should harvest. To enable cars to drive to the
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All software architectures have to deal with stress. It is simply the way the world works! Stressors come from multiple directions, including changes in the marketplace, business models, and customer demand, as well as infrastructure failures, improper or unexpected inputs, and bugs. As software architects, one of our jobs is to create solutions that meet
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This video takes a serious but light-hearted look at the role of enterprise architects in modern IT organizations. Software architects in the enterprise are often regarded as ivory tower residents who bestow their utopian plans upon project teams in the form of colorful diagrams that bear little to no resemblance to reality. The most suspicious
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