Bart is a passionate Application Architect, who believes closing the model-code gap is essential to make rapid, agile delivery sustainable. Bart has a strong focus on API design, reuse, automation and security. He is always looking for technical challenges.
By now, we all know "BDUF" (Big Design Up Front) and "NDUF" (No Design Up Front) don't work when creating the architecture of a system. We need "JEDUF" (Just Enough Design Up Front) ... unfortunately, nobody knows what "just enough" is. But some vendors can probably sell you a tool for it ...
In this talk, I want to give a very pragmatic approach on creating the architecture of a (new) system. And it's not only drawing boxes and lines or pitching some tool. It starts with a short but intense design phase and then validating and evolving the architecture from a running application using distributed tracing. This means the system itself will be the architecture! We will use Elastic Kubernetes Service on AWS with XRay as a practical example to explain and visualize the architecture of a cloud-born distributed system.
