Mar 24, 2020

Data Redundancy beats Coupling across Distributed Services

@Feanil Patel (Deactivated) @Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: Distributed Data Problems and Solutions

• Mural with Pros of Cons of solutions

Apr 14, 2020

Extensions beat Core Modifications

@Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: SOLID Design Principles, edX’s Path to Extensions

May 5, 2020

Extensions beat Core Modifications, extended

@Dave Ormsbee (Deactivated)

• Slides: Extensions (Part 2)

In this Arch Study Group, we will build upon what we learned in the last study group. So if you could not make the last one on SOLID and Extensions, please catch up via the speaker notes in the following slides prior to attending this session: SOLID Design Principles, edX’s Path to Extensions

Jun 16, 2020

DDD Bounded Contexts beats Shared Business Logic

@Calen Pennington (Deactivated)

• Slides: Everyone Needs Boundaries (with Domain-driven Design)

• Workshop Recording

Cale will lead us through exercises and principles related to where/how to draw boundaries, using techniques and concepts from Domain-driven Design. We will discuss and apply our learnings to the edX system.

Sep 8, 2020

Boundaries: Cohesion, Coupling, Microservices, and Domain-Driven Design

@Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: Boundaries

• Workshop Recording

Join me today as we study the time-old question of boundaries and modularity (cohesion & coupling). We will see how this relates to micro-services (should this be a new service or not?) This is a baseline discussion for "Why Domain-driven Design".

Oct 20, 2020

Bounded Autonomy beats Coordination: Reversibility & Uncertainty of Decisions

@Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: Bounded Autonomy (Reversibility & Uncertainty of Decisions)

• Workshop Recording

In this workshop, we will explore the 1st item in the Manifesto: Autonomy beats Coordination. We will crowd-source ideas on the reversibility of technical decisions at edX. If time permits, we will also do an exercise to calibrate ourselves on our ability to quantify the certainty of our decisions.

Nov 10, 2020

Thoughtworks Tech Radar Review

@Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: Tech Radar

• Meeting Recording

This week, we'll break out into groups and review items from the latest ThoughtWorks Tech Radar.

Feb 2, 2021

How XBlocks work in edx-platform

@Nathan Sprenkle

• Slides: XBlocks in edX Platform

• Meeting Recording

Come join us as Nathan Sprenkle presents what he's learned from his experiences working with the Open-Response-Assessment (ORA) XBlock

He'll be answering the question, "when I visit a course on edX, what happens to get interactive course content rendered to the page?" Along the way, we'll go on an archeological adventure through edx-platform and the XBlock runtime to understand the roles they play and examine some of the clever tricks going on to assemble the different pieces.

Feb 23, 2021

Yoking UX & Tech: The value of customer-centricity

@Stacey Messier (Deactivated) @Gabe Mulley (Deactivated) @Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: Yoking UX & Tech: The value of customer-centricity

• Meeting Recording

• Squad-specific Ideas

Stacey, edX’s Head of UX will lead a workshop (with assists from Gabe and Nim), on embedding UX into technical design and engineering.

Do you know the difference between Customer Insights and Customer Centricity?

Would you like hands-on experience with applying UX insights into your technical design? 

Is there a value in doing so?  Don’t take our word for it. Come and experience it!

Mar 16, 2021

Moving & Building Boxes of Domains and Bounded Contexts

Theme Strategies -> Conway -> Arch Boundaries -> Ownership

@Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Slides: DDD: Moving & Building Boxes

• Meeting Recording

• Miro Board

Let's plan to rebuild our bounded contexts diagram. We'll use Miro to empower ourselves (in small groups?) to create and move boxes.

Are there opportunities to define cleaner boundaries between domains that enable better theme-specific autonomy? Are there terms and concepts that need updating, given what we know now?

We'll briefly review a few domain-driven design (and team topology) principles and then dive right into a working session.

If you're looking for diagramming inspiration, check out Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast.

Apr 6, 2021

Yoking UX and Tech (part deux)

@Stacey Messier (Deactivated) @Gabe Mulley (Deactivated) @Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)

• Meeting Recording

• Miro Board

• Recap what we learned from Part 1.

• Panel discussion on applying UX in Enterprise and SRE teams.

• Collectively share our experiences and learnings.

• Conclude with take-aways from this series.

Aug 25, 2021

Django Events and Signals

@Dave Ormsbee (Deactivated)

• Meeting Recording

• Slides

Come learn about Django signals, the openedx-events library, and how we want to leverage events to make it easier to write extensions in Open edX! This will be a recorded arch workshop session.