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Date Published
Author
Greg Sypolt
Word count
847
Language
English
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None

Summary

The future of software development architecture will prioritize automation, scalability, recoverability, and analytics. To build a culture that supports this vision, teams must focus on freedom, responsibility, and accountability, allowing passionate employees to innovate and take risks. Automation strategies should emphasize testing in pre-production and production environments, removing fear and injecting chaos into the production infrastructure. Scalability is crucial, requiring cross-team training, innovation, and deploying new processes or technologies. Repeatedly building environments for development, pre-prod, and production that are identical using tools like configuration management and containerization will be essential. Additionally, real-time analytics will enable teams to evaluate and recalibrate their processes, testing, application, infrastructure, and more, with instantaneous alerts when things go wrong.