The role of the software architect has evolved out of the necessity to design increasingly complex systems. But what does that really mean?

Why does Netflix famously have thousands of microservices? By the same token, why did Amazon, not too long ago, drop microservices...

Introduction In software development, adhering to fundamental system design and software architecture tenets is key for creating robust,...

In the first Software Engineer to Software Architect article, I provided a curated list of free and paid resources to help a software...

New and mature teams alike need to deploy applications to production. You would think that doing so is fairly straightforward - at least...

If I had a dollar for every time that I came across a bug with an implementation of caching in a software system… I would probably have...

The path to mastery of software architecture is a never ending journey. There is no shortage of great resources along the way, and that's...

Software Architecture is not what you think it is… There are many definitions floating about software architecture and even more notions...

This is a collection of free resources to help you get a holistic well rounded understanding of what the cloud is and how to navigate the...

Tough question indeed… There is probably no other term in the tech industry that is as widespread and yet as widely misunderstood as...

In the first article of this series, we've focused on what are architectural tradeoffs and why they are important. In the second article,...

One problem area that I have seen while consulting to different software engineering teams is the lack of documentation and tracking when...

Software Vectors by Vecteezy Introduction One of the reasons that a wrong technical decision comes back to bite us is not so much because...

Event Streaming or Messaging? Kafka or RabbitMQ? SQS? Kinesis? Azure Event Hubs? Or Azure Service Bus? The above are a few variations of...

At its core, it helps to view the discipline of software architecture as the discipline of making conscious choices between the tradeoffs