Want to dive deeper into software architecture, development, or teamwork? We've gathered a collection of books, articles, podcasts, and videos here that our trainers have written, translated, or simply recommend. From architecture cheat sheets to comprehensive textbooks, you'll find everything to help you expand your knowledge.
The ADES Framework is a learning framework targeted at agile organizations. It ties together technical and organizational aspects and defines six "learning sectors". Agile organizations need to continuously improve and work on these sectors to achieve the goal of sustainable agile practice.
In agile contexts, software architecture is becoming more dynamic, fragmented, and distributed. Agile thinking brings cross-functionality, iterativity, and flexibility. This is changing the discipline of architecture. In large development projects, communication and ad hoc decisions are more difficult. How can agile architecture work be done effectively in this context? The sixth edition of our architecture cheat sheet summarizes the most important aspects.
APIs are much more than just technical interfaces—they are strategic building blocks of modern businesses. In this article, Erik Wilde, Thilo Frotscher, and Falk Sippach explain what matters most when it comes to the design, documentation, security, and governance of APIs.
The architecture of six real-world software systems, each described using arc42. This allows you to see, through practical examples, what arc42 feels like. Often used to support the introduction of arc42 in teams or projects.
Arcard is a card game, which is about the content of the iSAQB CPSA-FOUNDATION training. This card game was created by our trainer Markus Harrer. You can download it here:
Training and continuing education to become an OMG Certified Expert in Business Process Management 2 (OCEB 2) – Fundamental Level
Data Mesh is a new approach to the procurement, provision, access, and management of analytical data that also scales. Translated into German by our trainers Jochen Christ and Simon Harrer.
This small booklet explains the key topics of the iSAQB curriculum in a compact form and explains the modalities of the Foundation Level exam. It is not a substitute for a textbook!
All information on modular monoliths is summarized in this cheat sheet.
See at a glance which tools and tricks can help you organize your Apache Maven builds and make maintenance easier.
All important information on the topic of web performance is summarized in this cheat sheet.
The fifth edition of our Architecture Cheat Sheet shows you how to build applications that fully exploit the potential of a cloud environment in our usual compact form. You are developing new cloud applications. What do you look for when designing architecture and selecting technology? There are concerns about cloud solutions. How do you address these?
The book is a 100% practical guide to building Continuous Delivery pipelines that automate rollouts, improve reproducibility, and dramatically reduce risk. It introduces a proven Continuous Delivery technology stack and guides you through applying these technologies throughout. Wolff’s start-to-finish example projects offer the basis for your own experimentation.
Modern architectural approaches such as microservices place high demands on integration and distribution. The 7th edition of our architecture cheat sheet summarises the most important aspects.
Developers today have a wide range of options when it comes to choosing a database for their application. In this book, we discuss data models, scaling, and operation, with the aim of helping you make the right choice.
Domain-driven design (DDD for short) is a method for structuring software systems. Based on fundamental DDD concepts, this cheat sheet shows you a clear and adaptable process that will help you quickly and easily put your knowledge into practice.
Machine learning (ML for short) is often mystified. In fact, it opens up entirely new possibilities. The approach and tools used differ significantly from those used in traditional software development. This cheat sheet provides a straightforward introduction to ML and shows you how to conduct your own experiments.
If you want to deliver software quickly and agilely, there's no getting around DevOps. In this episode, Lucas and Anja talk about what DevOps is – and what it isn't.
Record designs, decisions, and solutions in a comprehensible and effective manner. Stefan Zörner's book shows you how to record the central solution approaches of your software systems in such a way that they help you with development and further development.
A compact introduction to arc42. Effective, painless, and with little effort. Gernot Starke and Benjamin Wolf dispel some preconceptions about (technical) documentation and show you how to easily create sensible (architecture) documentation.
DDD plays a crucial role in the design and implementation of technically demanding systems. Eric Evans' DDD reference is an indispensable source for understanding DDD.
Gernot Starke's well-known guide helps aspiring software architects prepare for the iSAQB CPSA Foundation certification. In over 400 pages and 16 clearly structured chapters, readers learn all the basics relevant to the exam.
How do you motivate employees to take responsibility for their own professional development? Not at all, says Kim Duggen, because the assumption is that this desire is intrinsic. In the podcast, she explains how to awaken this dormant need for further training.
Classical software testing cannot simply be transferred to AI. Model governance and internal audits are required to ensure fairness.
The integration of data and functionality in the front end is a powerful but relatively rarely discussed topic. This article aims to highlight common patterns and briefly outline the possible advantages and disadvantages.
GitOps is a way of implementing Continuous Deployment for cloud native applications. It focuses on a developer-centric experience when operating infrastructure, by using tools developers are already familiar with.
This book aims to explain the concepts of Domain-driven Design in a way that it is easily applicable in practice.
In this special series, INNOQ experts talk about topics from the security universe. Only available in German.
Kim Nena Duggen, curator of the SOFT advanced module, addresses relevant questions in the interview and gives a good overview of what you can expect from the SOFT training.
With Kim, the world of New Work has gained a powerful change maker. As an elected board member of a software company, Kim has taught and learned many important lessons in the areas of self-organization and leadership. Her wonderfully open manner is not only a testament to her considerable courage, but also to her deep experience in organizational development. In this episode, you will learn, among other things, what verbal thinkers are and why it is beneficial for managers to show their own insecurity. [Interview on Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/newworkheroes/29-interviewfolge-mit-kim-nena-duggen-uber-selbstorganisation-und-mitarbeiterfuhrung)
In this iSAQB® curator interview, Stefan Toth, curator for iSAQB® CPSA-A® ARCEVAL and iSAQB® CPSA-A® AGILA, reveals why agility and software architecture go well together. You can also find out more about the architect:inenn role and the challenges in an agile team.
In this book, we show you entertaining and practical ways to achieve better software architectures – effective, timeless, and technology-neutral! You will find typical behavior patterns of software architects, both good and bad. You will learn from successful patterns how to design better systems and work more effectively. From the "anti-patterns," you will derive remedies for poor architectural practices. Special attention is paid to the evolution and modification of systems.
Over the last couple of years Kubernetes has arguably become the most popular infrastructure platform with a rapidly growing ecosystem. This practical guide shows you how to optimize the configuration of your Kubernetes cluster so that they run your workloads as efficiently as possible.
This cheat sheet describes a scalable assessment approach that quickly delivers initial, presentable results on four richly illustrated pages.
This article encourages leaner review approaches and presents LASR, a concrete procedure that you and your development team can use directly to assess your situation—without extensive preparation or involving many participants.
This booklet provides a brief overview of microservices and is a good starting point for working with microservices. [More info](https://leanpub.com/microservices-ueberblick)
The third edition of our architecture cheat sheet highlights the principles and framework conditions that determine architectural style and how you can approach them in a well-prepared manner.
Eberhard Wolff's book contains a comprehensive introduction to microservices and examines technologies as well as architecture and organizational implications.
There are many technologies for microservices. This book covers the basics of microservices, the concepts behind the technologies, and finally specific recipes using a variety of technologies. The book thus offers a good introduction to microservices in practice.
This brochure presents technology recipes for implementing microservices. The examples are available for download as code.
Single-page applications (SPAs) shift the focus of an application toward the browser. How do you deal with the resulting architectural challenges? Our Spicker issue no. 9 will help you with this task!
What is performance in agile, self-organized structures, and how can "performance" be measured and ideally influenced positively in different contexts? In this episode, Kim not only brings many questions, but also a guest, namely her father Finn Duggen.
Die Umsetzung interner Entwicklungsplattformen als Softwareprodukt für Entwicklungsteams ist als „Platform Engineering“ bekannt. Dieser Spicker beschreibt den Aufbau einer typischen Plattform und gibt wertvolle Hinweise zur Umsetzung.
"I accept cookies." Each of us accepts them several times a day. But what exactly happens when we do? Stefan Bodewig, Lucas Dohmen and Till Schulte-Coerne discuss this in this episode.
“What happens when you press Enter in your browser?”Lucas and Robert discuss nothing less than the backbone of the World Wide Web. Step by step, the two work their way through the three pillars of the Web—HTML, HTTP, and URLs—before getting to the heart of the matter: the stateless request-response cycle with headers.
Modern software architecture should be agile and practical. This book by our trainer Stefan Toth offers lightweight patterns that can be flexibly integrated into projects - without rigid specifications.
This book provides software architects with a comprehensive collection of quality tactics to improve the quality of software systems. With hundreds of proven tactics, it is an indispensable tool for designing high-quality software architectures.
Remote Mob Programming combines two ways of working: Mob Programming and working as a distributed team. Jochen Christ, Simon Harrer and Martin Huber share their experience with their working model - and why they don’t want to work differently anymore.
Practical guide to iSAQB CPSA-Advanced REQ4ARC by Dr. Gernot Starke and Dr. Peter Hruschka.
The book offers a theoretically sound, but above all practical guide to the professional use of RESTful HTTP.
This primer explains what a service mesh is, shows reasons to use one, and give a complete executable example with Istio.
This book provides a practical introduction to the world of sketchnotes. You will create your first sketchnote on the very first pages—regardless of your prior knowledge or talent.
Architecture is stable, software development is agile - there are constantly new requirements and new sprints with new plans. How do these two worlds fit together? In this episode Stefan Toth discusses these and other questions about agility and architecture - from team to company level.
Once a week, Eberhard Wolff, Ralf D. Müller, or Lisa Maria Schäfer discuss topics related to software architecture in a live stream—often together with a guest.
This practical guide shows you how software systems that have grown over many years can be effectively analyzed and evaluated.
Architecture reviews enable you to identify weaknesses and potential in software solutions, validate decisions, and evaluate improvement measures. This book introduces you to lightweight reviews that you can carry out yourself or in a small team after reading it!
With a wealth of practical strategies and case studies, this book shows how companies can use their software systems to stay ahead of the competition. Readers will find valuable suggestions for implementing strategies to further develop their software in a sustainable manner.
What is the difference between operations and platform teams? In this talk, Anja also discusses what internal development platforms actually are, why an operations team cannot offer such a platform, and what all this has to do with DevOps and unicorns.
A socio-technical view of companies enables sustainable transformations to make development organizations adaptive. This cheat sheet describes approaches such as team topologies, how to combine them with other building blocks, methods, or tools, and how to use them in practice.
At the OOP in January 2024, our trainer Kim Nena Duggen gave a Software Snack, a short presentation, on the topic of "Team Topologies in Theory & Practice."
Organizing business and IT teams for a fast workflow. Including interactions in distributed teams – Workbook. Team topologies patterns for more productive collaboration.
You or your team are missing a compact overview of your existing software solution? You want to explain your architecture to new project members or cooperation partners? The source code is too »detailed« … The first edition of our Architecture cheat sheets supports you to get a high-level-overview of solution approaches in order to work effectively. Use the compact ingredients and fill your architecture overview with life – pragmatically and effectively.
The Rails™ 8 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. It illuminates the entire Rails 7 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries.
In this talk, Ralf D. MĂĽller looks at the integration of AI into software design and in particular introduces ChatGPT, a Large Language Model (LLM). Watch this talk if you are interested in using ChatGPT in software architecture.
Using the same tools and processes as in software development enables you to maintain documentation efficiently. This Spicker explains the idea and helps you to document your projects.
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