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Central University · September 2, 2024

Evolution of Development Approaches

How design, data, architecture, delivery and platform reshape engineering ownership

/ Evolution of dev approaches · Central University 2024

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  1. 1. Evolution of Development Approaches

    How design, data, architecture, delivery and platform reshape engineering ownership

  2. 2. Alexander Polomodov

    Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director & Fellow, Central University

    20+ years of practice evolution

    Architecture and delivery

    From software to AI-assisted SDLC

  3. 3. Evolution runs through five contours

    Design — An idea becomes a model

    Data — Storage follows reads

    Delivery — A release becomes a pipeline

  4. 4. A fast start creates expensive growth

    Naive

    Idea → code

    Manual deploy

    Few artifacts

    With design

    Functional + NFR

    Sizing and boundaries

    Trade-offs before stack

  5. 5. Design makes a problem testable

  6. 6. Storage follows the read pattern

  7. 7. Style changes the ownership boundary

  8. 8. Release became part of the repository

  9. 9. Platforms separate business from hardware

  10. 10. AI enters the whole SDLC

  11. 11. A new layer changes responsibility

    Design records assumptions

    Data follows access

    Architecture changes ownership

    Pipelines encode delivery

    Platform and AI shift bottlenecks

    Evolution adds trade-offs; it does not erase them

  12. 12. The continuation deepens trade-offs

    DDIA · data and distribution

    CNCF · cloud native

    DevOps Handbook · flow

    CAP / PACELC · next lecture

  13. 13. Thank you!

    polomodov.tech

    Lectures, notes and links are on the site

    Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director & Fellow, Central University

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