As technology architects, we are expected to make decisions. Architectural decisions. Often, these are large scale, important, complex,...

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

Lesson #1: The Most Insidious Bugs Hide In Between Imagine a scenario. You are writing a new feature. Let's say that it's a REST API. You...

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,...

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...

Software developers face a lot of challenges on a daily basis. These are both technical and non-technical. Also, they are very common. In...

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

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

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