Tools / Scalability and Resilience

• ERD Lab - Free cloud based entity relationship diagram (ERD) tool made for developers.

Bonus / DevOps

• Software Architect Roadmap - A complete and structured guide to become a Software Architect.

Principles

• SOLID - Lend to developing software with considerations for maintaining and extending as the project grows

Design Patterns / Scalability and Resilience

• Circuit Breaker - Protecting failing resources to prevent cascading failures.

• Bulkhead - Partition resources to isolate failures.

• Leader Election - Coordinate distributed workloads by electing a leader.

Tools / Scalability and Resilience

• Sketchboard.io - Collaborative sketchboarding.

Documentation / Scalability and Resilience

• arc42 - Template for documentation and communication of software and system architectures.

Principles

• Flexibility - Able to adapt to changes in both environment and usability requirements without encompassing structural changes.

Design Patterns

• Ports and adapters pattern - Decouple the application core logic from the services it uses.

Frameworks / DevOps

• The Unicorn Project, by Gene Kim - Developers, Digital Disruption and Thriving in the Age of Data 📙.

Frameworks / DevOps

• The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim et al - IT, Devops and helping your Business win 📙.

Frameworks / DevOps

• Adidas DevOps Maturity Framework (⭐606) - Based in the C.A.L.M.S. definition of DevOps, the framework defines a set of capabilities and guidelines that when adopted, increases efficiency, effectiveness and happiness of the team.

Bonus / DevOps

• How to learn software design and architecture - a roadmap - Additional things helpful to learn to get a firm understanding of software architecture.

Methodology / Scalability and Resilience

• No silver bullet, by Brooks - Making a case for growing software in small increments 📙.

Methodology / Scalability and Resilience

• Clean Architecture, by Martin - Key principles and concepts for building sustainable and maintainable software 📙.

• The Magic Tricks of Testing, by Metz - Minimalistic ideals as a practical and pragmatic approach to software testing 🎥.

• TDD, Where did it all go wrong?, by Cooper - Suggestion on TDD practices and boundaries to reduce coupling 🎥.

Methodology / Scalability and Resilience

• Technical Debt, by Fowler - Cost and impact of accumulating technical debt.

Design Patterns

• Observer pattern - One-to-many state change notification.

Frameworks / Agile

• Agile Architecture Pt. 1, by Allen Holub - How do we work with architecture in a agile world 🎥.

• Agile Architecture Pt. 2, by Allen Holub - How do we work with architecture in a agile world 🎥.

Frameworks / Agile

• The death of Agile, by Allen Holub - How "Agile" has moved away from the basic principles of agility, and what we need to do to fix things 🎥.

Frameworks / Agile

• Nexus - Scalable Scrum according to Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum.

Design Patterns

• N-tier architecture style - Layers are a way to separate responsibilities and manage dependencies.

Design Patterns

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Functional Testing - BDD uses human-readable descriptions of software user requirements as the basis for software tests.

Design Patterns

• CQRS - Segregate operations that read data from operations that update data by using separate interfaces.

• Event Sourcing - Instead of storing just the current state of the data in a domain, use an append-only store to record the full series of actions taken on that data.

• Feature Toggles - Feature Toggles (often also refered to as Feature Flags) are a powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code.

Frameworks / DevOps

• Chaos Engineering at Netfix - Chaos Engineering is a new discipline within Software Engineering, building confidence in the behavior of distributed systems at scale 🎥.

Frameworks / DevOps

• Keep CALMS and carry on - How BPDTS use the CALMS model as a reference for their devops adaptations.

Documentation / Scalability and Resilience

• Documenting architecture - Pragmatic tips on how to effectively document software architecture.

Design Patterns

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Gamma et al - The one that started it all 📙.

• Software Design Patterns: A Guide - Introduction to common software design patterns.

Frameworks / Lean software development

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Goldratt - Business novel about contiuous improvements in a manufacturing setting. Easily adaptable to software development as well 📙.

Documentation / Scalability and Resilience

• Architectural Decision Records - Version and document architectural decisions the same way you do with code.

Workshop formats / Scalability and Resilience

• Event Storming - Format for exploring domain driven-design.

• MoSCoW Prioritization - Fast and dead-simple way of prioritizing requirements.

• Story mapping - Visualize your requirements by creating story maps.

• Impact mapping - A strategic planning technique used for building products and delivering projects.

• Business Model Canvas - Business plans made simple and visual.

• Business Model Generation, by Osterwalder & Pigneur - Easily visualize your value proposition, costs and revenue streams 📙.

Modeling / Scalability and Resilience

• The C4 Model - Describe software using Context, Containers, Components and Code.

• Wikipedia: Data modeling - Great, short, introduction to data modeling.

Tools / Scalability and Resilience

• Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect - Object-oriented modelling suite. Only available natively for Windows.

• Visual Paradigm - Similar to Enterprise Architect. Available for multiple platforms.

• Lucidchart - Paid cloud-based diagram editor. Available on all common platforms.

• Draw.io - Free and simple diagram editor. Comparable to Visio and its likes. Available on all common platforms.

• Structurizr - Modelling tool based on the C4 Model (see above).

• PlantUML - Like markdown for diagrams, PlantUML renders an english-like grammer into diagrams.

• PlantUML for Atlassian - Adds support for PlantUML-based diagrams in the atlassian suite.

Frameworks / Agile

• Scrum - Framework for developing and maintaining complex products.

• SAFe - Scalable agile framework.

Frameworks / Lean software development

• Wikipedia: Lean Software Development - Translation of lean manufacturing for the software development domain.

• Rolling rocks downhill, by Clarke Ching - Business novel about agile and lean software development 📙.

Frameworks / Extreme programming

• Extreme Programming - The most specific of the popular agile processes, focusing on engineering and development practices.

Frameworks / DevOps

• Wikipedia: DevOps - Combining software development and operations practices to shorten time to market while maintaining high quality.