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May 01 - May 07, 2023
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.
Oct 03 - Oct 09, 2022
Principles
- SOLID - Lend to developing software with considerations for maintaining and extending as the project grows
Oct 25 - Oct 31, 2021
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.
Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020
Documentation / Scalability and Resilience
- arc42 - Template for documentation and communication of software and system architectures.
Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020
Principles
- Flexibility - Able to adapt to changes in both environment and usability requirements without encompassing structural changes.
Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020
Design Patterns
- Ports and adapters pattern - Decouple the application core logic from the services it uses.
Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2020
Frameworks / DevOps
- The Unicorn Project, by Gene Kim - Developers, Digital Disruption and Thriving in the Age of Data 📙.
Feb 24 - Mar 01, 2020
Frameworks / DevOps
- The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim et al - IT, Devops and helping your Business win 📙.
Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2020
Frameworks / DevOps
- Adidas DevOps Maturity Framework (⭐538) - 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.
Dec 30 - Jan 05, 2019
Bonus / DevOps
- How to learn software design and architecture - a roadmap - Additional things helpful to learn to get a firm understanding of software architecture.
Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019
Methodology / Scalability and Resilience
- No silver bullet, by Brooks - Making a case for growing software in small increments 📙.
Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2019
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 🎥.
Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019
Methodology / Scalability and Resilience
- Technical Debt, by Fowler - Cost and impact of accumulating technical debt.
Oct 07 - Oct 13, 2019
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 🎥.
Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2019
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 🎥.
Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2019
Frameworks / Agile
- Nexus - Scalable Scrum according to Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum.
Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2019
Design Patterns
- N-tier architecture style - Layers are a way to separate responsibilities and manage dependencies.
Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2019
Design Patterns
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Functional Testing - BDD uses human-readable descriptions of software user requirements as the basis for software tests.
Apr 29 - May 05, 2019
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.
Documentation / Scalability and Resilience
- Documenting architecture - Pragmatic tips on how to effectively document software architecture.
Frameworks / DevOps
- Keep CALMS and carry on - How BPDTS use the CALMS model as a reference for their devops adaptations.
- Chaos Engineering at Netfix - Chaos Engineering is a new discipline within Software Engineering, building confidence in the behavior of distributed systems at scale 🎥.
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019
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.
- Software Design Patterns and Principes (quick overview) - Reasons about common design patterns as well as their upsides and downsides 🎥.
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 📙.
Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2019
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.