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?

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...

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...

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