System architecture answers the difficult questions with big impact early in product development. Which SoM comes with a CRA-compliant Linux? Which components should manufacturers develop themselves, which outsource and which buy off the shelf? Which team structure leads to an architecture for the system that is upgradable for the next 10-15 years? How can manufacturers save costs by reducing the number of embedded systems in their machines?
Review of the book "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flybjerg et al. If complex projects run over budget, they do so spectacularly. Experimenting heavily during architecture gets the big decisions right - early. Implementing the right decisions efficiently saves tons of money. Think slow, act fast!
The ports-and-adapters architecture should be the standard architecture for HMI applications. Its parts are loosely coupled, cohesive, easy to test and easy to extend. We can apply the reverse Conway manoeuvre to create self-dependent teams with minimal dependencies on other
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The parking experience at Munich Airport is awful. It is too easy to do something wrong, which can only be remedied by calling support. The bad user experience is caused by a bad system architecture. The pieces for a better
I never got the hang of UML: overly complicated, hard to understand, too close to code. Hence, I was skeptical about C4 diagrams when I first heard about them. When I saw Simon Brown using them in his talk Modular
Welcome to Episode 28 of My Newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems This will be the last episode of my newsletter. From now on, I'll do all my writing on my blog. So, you won't have to
CMake uses Graphviz to generate dependency graphs between the targets of a CMake project like libraries and executables. The graphs help us get an idea of the software architecture and identify the dependency hot spots. Generating Dependency Graphs My running