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Able to adapt to changes in both environment and usability requirements without encompassing structural changes

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

Decouple the application core logic from the services it uses

One-to-many state change notification

The one that started it all

Introduction to common software design patterns

Reasons about common design patterns as well as their upsides and downsides 🎥

Segregate operations that read data from operations that update data by using separate interfaces

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

BDD uses human-readable descriptions of software user requirements as the basis for software tests

Layers are a way to separate responsibilities and manage dependencies

Protecting failing resources to prevent cascading failures

Partition resources to isolate failures

Coordinate distributed workloads by electing a leader

Making a case for growing software in small increments

Key principles and concepts for building sustainable and maintainable software

Cost and impact of accumulating technical debt

Minimalistic ideals as a practical and pragmatic approach to software testing 🎥

Suggestion on TDD practices and boundaries to reduce coupling 🎥

Template for documentation and communication of software and system architectures

Version and document architectural decisions the same way you do with code

Pragmatic tips on how to effectively document software architecture

Format for exploring domain driven-design

Fast and dead-simple way of prioritizing requirements

Visualize your requirements by creating story maps

A strategic planning technique used for building products and delivering projects

Business plans made simple and visual

Easily visualize your value proposition, costs and revenue streams

Describe software using Context, Containers, Components and Code

Great, short, introduction to data modeling

Object-oriented modelling suite. Only available natively for Windows

Similar to Enterprise Architect. Available for multiple platforms

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

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

Modelling tool based on the C4 Model (see above)

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

Adds support for PlantUML-based diagrams in the atlassian suite

Collaborative sketchboarding

Free cloud based entity relationship diagram (ERD) tool made for developers

Framework for developing and maintaining complex products

Scalable agile framework

Scalable Scrum according to Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum

How "Agile" has moved away from the basic principles of agility, and what we need to do to fix things 🎥

How do we work with architecture in a agile world 🎥

How do we work with architecture in a agile world 🎥

Translation of lean manufacturing for the software development domain

Business novel about agile and lean software development

Business novel about contiuous improvements in a manufacturing setting. Easily adaptable to software development as well

The most specific of the popular agile processes, focusing on engineering and development practices

Combining software development and operations practices to shorten time to market while maintaining high quality

IT, Devops and helping your Business win

Developers, Digital Disruption and Thriving in the Age of Data

How BPDTS use the CALMS model as a reference for their devops adaptations

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

Adidas DevOps Maturity Framework

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

Additional things helpful to learn to get a firm understanding of software architecture

A complete and structured guide to become a Software Architect