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Evolutionary
Architecture
My Take
&
Lessons Learned
Efim Dimenstein
July 2018
WHO AM I
Efim Dimenstein
Chief Architect, Liveperson
efim@efimd.com
Why this talk
Observations & Experiences
Engineers/Architect Daily Life
• Productivity
• Scalability
• Security
• Portability
• Stability
• Performance
• ….
Higher Level Goal
Doing the right thing at the right time
What is the right thing?
• Do we know?
• Can we predict?
• Do we react?
Looking at real life
Evolution
Incremental
Adaptable
Experimental
Evolutionary Architecture
An evolutionary architecture supports
continual and incremental change as a first
principle along multiple dimensions
How does this all apply to
Software Architecture?
Big Ball of Mud
Continual
Incremental
Dimensions
Layered Architecture
Presentation
Business
Persistence
Database
Component Component
Component Component
Component Component
Opportunities
Continual
Incremental
Dimensions
Domain Shift
Presentation
Business
Persistence
Database
Component Component
Component Component
Component Component Continual
Incremental
Domain
Dimensions
Microservices
API layer
User
Component
Component
Account
Component
Component
Product
Component
Component
Rating
Component
Component
Continual
Incremental
Dimensions
Decentralized Data Management
API layer
User
Component
Component
Account
Component
Component
Product
Component
Component
User Account
Product
Decentralized Governance
1 Stack Free for all
Architect suffers from less pressure
to make the correct choice
Coupling
CI/CD & Automation
Evolutionary Architecture
An evolutionary architecture supports
continual and incremental change as a first
principle along multiple dimensions
So we’re done,
right?
No, we just got to the interesting
part
Natural Selection & Experimentation
How do we know which is better?
Fitness Function
Fitness Function(s)
Metrics
Natural Selection & Experimentation
In Software Architecture -> Natural selection is
A/B testing with Fitness Function
Service Level Selection
API layer
User
Component
Component
Account
Component
Component
Product
Component
Component
Rating
Component
Component
User v2
Component
Component
Service Level Selection
API layer
Account
Component
Component
Product
Component
Component
Rating
Component
Component
User v2
Component
Component
Component Level Selection
User
Component A
Component
Component A v2
Component
Component
Component Level Selection
User
Component A
Component
Component
Component
Infrastructure Needed
• Feature Toggles
• Load Balancing & Routing ability
Real Life Lessons
Learned
Lesson 1:
Conway’s Law
"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs
which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
Lesson 2:
Don’t Lie with the Fitness Function
Lesson 3:
Don’t even start without
necessary infrastructure in place
Lesson 4:
Real Life problems are complex
So start small
Conclusion
Evolutionary Architecture is the next step
after Microservices
As with Microservices - necessary
infrastructure is key
References
https://medium.com/developers-writing/my-take-on-evolutionary-architecture-f761d45e75b9
http://www.evolutionaryarchitecture.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzSZpZI02Jg

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Evolutionary architecture

Editor's Notes

  1. Stepping back a bit and looking into the real world, made me see things from a surprisingly comparable perspective. How about the evolution of life? Which were the reasons for some life’s variations to outlive others? Since I am not a biologist, nor a scientist, the explanations I gave myself were quite trivial but also highly convincing. Certainly, there are multiple variations, multiple species and let’s even say versions of life. Further there are generations, thus continuation and incrementation. Evolution is not a sudden change, but rather the conclusion of the capability to adapt to explicit circumstances within our world’s directly affecting environment. The ability to improve and learn with every generation gave me a strong hint. What if software and its architecture could follow the same rules? There is a vast number of obvious attributes one could extract from this real wold’s scenario and apply to software architectural thinking.
  2. Architect suffers from less pressure to choose the correct choice