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World Congress 2021 • Jul 1, 2021

Move fast with Software Architecture

Simon Lasselsberger

Does sacrificing software design actually make you ship faster? Discover why technical debt kills velocity and how hexagonal architecture lets you safely sustain rapid delivery.

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Moving fast and reducing the cost of errors

Strategic software architecture allows teams to move fast by limiting the scope and impact of product failures.

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Defining software architecture and shared system understanding

True software architecture goes beyond technical documents to establish a shared understanding of decisions that are hard to change later.

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Recognizing technical components and proper engineering process alignment

Creating an architecture that accommodates change involves organizing high-level capabilities alongside specific communication patterns defined by conways law.

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Shifting software design paradigms from engineering to town planning

Town planning better represents the dynamic need to accommodate both legacy structures and future growth in evolving software systems.

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Navigating the software architect role and daily team responsibilities

The software architect role focuses on fostering team understanding and driving scalable logic via strong collaboration skills.

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Examining the design stamina hypothesis and long-term development speed

Investing continuous effort in internal software quality preserves long-term development speed despite an initial slower pacing.

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Managing technical debt accumulation and unpredicted feature delivery delays

Accumulating technical debt requires paying continuous system interest through slower development cycles before architectural progression becomes impossible.

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Addressing legacy codebases through iterative microservices framework migration

Iteratively isolating architecture components proves safer and more highly effective than stopping everyday product work to perform a complete system rewrite.

#9 about 6 min

Implementing hexagonal architecture patterns for business logic isolation

The classic hexagonal architecture pattern directly protects core business logic by decoupling dependencies using targeted system ports and external adapters.

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Modularity limits the application blast radius and technical debt

Isolating capabilities with bounded contexts naturally protects core system functions from flawed experimental features and spontaneous technical failures.

#11 about 7 min

Discussing pragmatic architectural scope reduction and system design patterns

Combining domain driven design with properly sized bounded contexts successfully scales technical operations without prematurely overcomplicating system prototypes.

#12 about 4 min

Securing architectural investment time on understaffed software engineering teams

Highlighting specific developer time losses caused by unstructured code solidifies the business case for allocating engineering resources toward sustainable architecture.

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Building and maintaining sustainable software architectures

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