Agile Architecture

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Presents a practical method that scores and composes architectural constraints to evolve systems incrementally instead of betting on upfront patterns, using weighted styles (loosely based on Mark Richards) and concrete tactics like DDD, CQRS, API strategies (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), CI/CD and automated governance. Claims microservices pay off only when teams, DevOps and data partitioning reach maturity, cites 136,000 deployments a day at Amazon versus 40 deployments a day at Shopify to show tradeoffs, and recommends starting with a modular monolith and measuring enough to add constraints later.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:03Misunderstanding agile
3. 7:07What is architecture?
4. 10:41Why architectures fail
5. 16:18Good design vs overengineering
6. 21:37Microservices reality check
7. 27:22Constraints shape architecture
8. 32:55Evolving layered monolith
9. 40:21Domain-driven decomposition
10. 47:28Measuring architectural fit
11. 57:04Enough is enough

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