Limiting software architecture to the traditional ideas is not enough for today's challenges. This presentation shows additional tools and how problems like maintainability, reliability and usability can be solved.

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5. What is Architecture?
What is an Architect?

6. Software Architecture
> Definition ISO 42010
Fundamental concepts or properties
of a system in its environment
embodied in its elements,
relationships,
and in the principles of its design and evolution

7. Architecture =
Boxes & Arrows

8. Software Architect?
> A title?
> A role!
> …in particular in agile teams.
> Anyone / someone is
doing architecture

9. Software Architect?
> Designer
> …like an architect for buildings

10. Architecture=
Boxes + Arrows
Architect=
Designer Role

11. Conway’s Law
Architecture
copies
communication structures
of the organization

12. Current
Frontend
Backend

13. Goal

14. Current
Frontend
Backend

15. Current
Frontend
Backend

16. Goal

17. Reorganization!

18. Reorganization!

19. Current: New goal?

20. Current: New goal?

21. New Goal

22. Architecture
> If architecture = organization
> …then change to architecture = reorganization
> …or organization is a constraint.

23. Goal

24. Goal:
Self-contained System
http://scs-architecture-org

25. Result

26. Result

27. Architecture
> Developers’ skills and preferences drive
technology decisions.
> Technology decisions can drive architecture.

28. Architecture=
Boxes + Arrows
+Org
Architect=
?

29. Why do we even care
about Architecture?

30. Maintainability!!

31. Quality Attributes
> ISO 25010
> E.g. reliability
> Usability
> Maintainability
> ...and a lot more

32. Architecture=
Quality Attributes
Architect=
?

33. Quality Attributes
> Reliability
> Usability
> Maintainability

34. Reliability
> Software has to be available
> Clean architecture & code – any impact?

35. Reliability
> Software has to be available
> Classic approach:
> Highly available hardware
> Run in a cluster
> …and cluster-enabled software

36. Reliability

37. Reliability
> ISO 25010: Availability / Fault tolerance
> ISO 25010: Recoverability

38. Reliability
> Highly available hardware
> …and cluster
> …focus on MTBF
(Mean time between failure)

39. Decrease MTTR - How?

41. Decrease MTTR – How?
> Find a problem faster
> Measure
> Monitoring
> Logs
> Alerts…

42. Decrease MTTR – How?
> Get the fix out faster
> Deployment
> …or fail-over

43. Decrease MTTR – How?
> Monitoring and Deployment:
> Ops challenges
> …not classic architecture

44. Architecture=
Quality Attributes+Org
Architect=
?

45. Quality Attributes
> Reliability
> Usability
> Maintainability

46. Usability
> ISO 25010
> Learnability
> Ease-of-use
> Attractiveness

47. Usability
> Might be very important
> …e.g. to gain a huge market share.
> How do you make it happen?

48. Architecture =
Boxes & Arrows

49. Usability??

50. Some Ideas to
Improve Usability
> Hire an UX expert
> Usability tests
> Prototypes + feedback
> Look at support cases / hotline calls

51. Some Ideas to
Improve Usability
> No traditional architecture
> QA / Organization / Project management

52. Usability
> Quality attribute
> Part of the technical decisions
> Beyond “usual” architecture measures

53. Architecture=
Quality Attributes+Org
Architect=
?

54. Quality Attributes
> Reliability
> Usability
> Maintainability

55. Maintainability
> Clean
architecture!
> I am waiting for
such a customer.

56. We can achieve
maintainability with
clean architecture +
clean code.

57. Clean Architecture

58. Developer

59. Developer

60. Result?

62. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
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Module = microservices

63. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
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Module = microservices
Communication e.g. REST

64. REST REST

65. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Dependencies between
systems cannot sneak in

66. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Dependencies between
systems cannot sneak in

67. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Dependencies between
systems cannot sneak in
“Architecture Firewalls”

68. “Architecture Firewall”
like REST
enforce the architecture

69. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Microservices small

70. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Microservices small
Hard to mess up

71. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Microservices small
Hard to mess up

72. ECommerce
System
Catalog
Billing
Search
Microservices small
Hard to mess up

73. ECommerce
System
Order
Catalog
Billing
Search
Microservices small
Hard to mess up
Replace if messed up.

74. Small,
independent deployable
microservices
are recyclable.

75. Recycle your
software!
!

76. How many people
are trying
to replace legacy
systems?

77. Replaceability
is usually no goal
for a software project.
Why??

78. We can achieve
maintainability with
clean architecture +
clean code

79. We can achieve
maintainability with
architecture firewalls +
recyclable microservices

80. Maintainability
> Clean architecture
focuses on
Changeability.
> …and Analyzability.
> There is more!

81. Testability
> Another contributing to maintainability
> IMHO: Should be tests, not just testability
> Bonus if tests need not be changed for
refactoring.
> Unit tests?
> Acceptance tests?

82. Deployment
> It’s nice to change code.
> It’s (lean) waste until it is in production.
> Deployment: another factor for
maintainability.

83. Commit
Stage
Automated
Acceptance
Testing
Automated
Capacity
Testing
Manual
Explorative
Testing
Release
QA
Dev Ops

84. Maintainability
> Not clean architecture and code
> Recyclable, very decoupled microservices
> Not just structure of the system, but also
> …test and deployment
> …continuous delivery pipeline

85. Maintainability
> Not just architect and Dev, but also
> QA and Ops

86. Architecture=
Quality Attributes+Org
Architect=
?

87. Achieving the Attributes
> Organizational Measure (e.g. hire UX)
> Cross-functional: Ops, Dev, QA

88. Architect?
> Technical manager
> In charge of achieving the
quality attributes
> Influencing organization
> …and Ops, Dev, QA

89. Agile Team
> Self Organization
> i.e. not necessarily a defined architect
> Architecture activities cover Ops, Dev, QA
> Cross-functional!

90. Architecture=
Quality Attributes+Org
Architect=
Technical
Management Role