You're reading from Becoming an Agile Software Architect Strategies, practices, and patterns to help architects design continually evolving solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563841

Length 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

JIRA

Concepts

Agile

Author (1):

Rajesh R V

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Understanding Architecture in the Agile World

2. Chapter 1: Looking through the Agile Architect's Lens FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Agile Architecture – The Foundation of Agile Delivery

4. Section 2: Transformation of Architect Roles in Agile

5. Chapter 3: Agile Architect – The Linchpin of Success

6. Chapter 4: Agile Enterprise Architect – Connecting Strategy to Code

7. Chapter 5: Agile Solution Architect – Designing Continuously Evolving Systems

8. Section 3: Essential Knowledge to Become a Successful Agile Architect

9. Chapter 6: Delivering Value with New Ways of Working

10. Chapter 7: Technical Agility with Patterns and Techniques

11. Chapter 8: DevOps and Continuous Delivery to Accelerate Flow

12. Chapter 9: Architecting for Quality with Quality Attributes

13. Chapter 10: Lean Documentation through Collaboration

14. Chapter 11: Architect as an Enabler in Lean-Agile Governance

15. Section 4: Personality Traits and Organizational Influence

16. Chapter 12: Architecting Organizational Agility

17. Chapter 13: Culture and Leadership Traits

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

As we learned in the previous chapter, the second segment of technical agility is DevOps and automation – a combination of embracing DevOps culture and implementing CD. DevOps is a culture that brings development and operational teams together without the wall of confusion. DevSecOps is an evolution of DevOps that instills security thinking into every step of Agile software delivery.

In this chapter, we saw that CD is a delivery practice to automatically move new features, improvements, and fixes to production by reducing the lead time and improving predictability. Consistently practicing CD dramatically improves the throughput of delivery and stability of systems and services. CD practice consists of CI, automated deployment, and release on demand. CI is a natural extension of development that helps to build, test, and deploy applications to one or more environments.

Next, we understood that automated test packs consolidate unit, functional, non-functional, and...