When to Use Microservices - A Deep Dive
Why does Netflix famously have thousands of microservices? By the same token, why did Amazon, not too long ago, drop microservices...
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5 Tenets of System Design & Architecture Every Software Engineer Must Know
Introduction In software development, adhering to fundamental system design and software architecture tenets is key for creating robust,...
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Software Engineer to Software Architect - Part 2 - Foundational Concepts
In the first Software Engineer to Software Architect article, I provided a curated list of free and paid resources to help a software...
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Is Your Enterprise Application Ready for Production?
New and mature teams alike need to deploy applications to production. You would think that doing so is fairly straightforward - at least...
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Mastering Caching in Distributed Applications
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...
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Software Engineer to Software Architect - Roadmap to Success
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...
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Demystifying Software Architecture: What it is, What it isn't, and Why it Matters
Software Architecture is not what you think it is… There are many definitions floating about software architecture and even more notions...
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Useful Resources for Your Cloud ☁️ Journey
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...
Dec 29, 20223 min read
What is "Cloud Native"
Tough question indeed… There is probably no other term in the tech industry that is as widespread and yet as widely misunderstood as...
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Software Architecture Tradeoffs Series - Part 3 - What are Architectural Characteristics?
In the first article of this series, we've focused on what are architectural tradeoffs and why they are important. In the second article,...
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Losing Track of Technical Decisions? Use Architecture Decision Records
One problem area that I have seen while consulting to different software engineering teams is the lack of documentation and tracking when...
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Software Architecture Tradeoffs Series - Part 2 - The Problem with Making Unconscious Decisions
Software Vectors by Vecteezy Introduction One of the reasons that a wrong technical decision comes back to bite us is not so much because...
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Making Sense of Event Streaming VS Traditional Messaging
Event Streaming or Messaging? Kafka or RabbitMQ? SQS? Kinesis? Azure Event Hubs? Or Azure Service Bus? The above are a few variations of...
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Software Architecture Tradeoffs Series - Part 1 - What and Why Do We Trade Off?
At its core, it helps to view the discipline of software architecture as the discipline of making conscious choices between the tradeoffs
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