Expert Talk: DevOps & Software Architecture • Simon Brown, Dave Farley & Hannes Lowette

"Expert talk on software architecture and DevOps, featuring Simon Brown, Dave Farley, and Hannes Lowette, exploring alignment, modularity, abstraction, and continuous delivery for optimal system design and iteration."

Key takeaways
  • Key Question: What is the best approach to software architecture and design?
  • Align services with a bounded context to achieve decoupling.
  • Software architecture is about management of complexity.
  • Modularity is essential to build systems that can be changed and iterated.
  • Techniques like continuous delivery and DevOps can greatly reduce waste and improve iteration.
  • Engineering is about optimizing for learning and accommodating changes.
  • Architecture should be designed to support the iterative approach, not trying to predict every detail upfront.
  • Domain-driven design and service-based architecture can help to modularize systems.
  • Importance of abstraction and modeling in software architecture.
  • Free functions, messages, and monitoring can help to decouple services.
  • DevOps and continuous delivery are about enabling fast iteration and learning.
  • Importance of understanding and managing complexity in software architecture.
  • Modularity is a key principle of software engineering.
  • Modeling can help to identify and manage complexity in software systems.
  • Continuous delivery and DevOps can help to improve iteration and reduce waste.