Agile Architecture Principle #4 – They build it, they test it

Note: this is one in a series of posts under the category of “agile architecture”. In an earlier post, (Six Principles of Agile Architecture) we identified six principles that can help us reason about the challenge of architecting systems of scale in an agile enterprise.

Posts Principle #1 – The team that codes the system designs [...]

Agile Architecture Principle #1 – The team that codes the system designs the system

Note: this is one in a series of posts under the category of “agile architecture”.

In the last post, (Six Principles of Agile Architecture) we identified six principles that can help us reason about the challenge of architecting systems of scale in an agile enterprise.
In this post, I’ll describe the first principle of agile architecture: the [...]

Six Principles of Agile Architecture (Part 1)

Many interesting discussions and debates about agile architecture, whether it be emergent, intentional, intentionally emergent, (or whatever!), continue as agile marches across the chasm into the enterprise. This issue gets particularly entertaining as I encounter deeply experienced and very senior architects, systems architects, VPs, CTOs and the like who have strong views about imposing architectural [...]

Building Scalable, Robust Architecture with Agile: Lessons Learned at Amazon

For any out there worried about whether or not large scale systems can be build with emergent (or intentionally emergent) architecture, I found the following post on the “High Scalability” blog by Todd Huff. http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture.
In this post, Todd reflects on lessons learned at Amazon on architecture and scalability. The information was derived from various [...]