Software Architecture

In part 1 of this series, we explored methodologies and frameworks that I find helpful in building and growing software startups. The purpose of this post is to illustrate how you can apply these techniques to minimize wasted effort and how planning for your software business translates to your cloud…

Our DDD cheat sheet received a lot of interest. Among others, we noticed multiple people asking a specific follow-up question: how to start learning and using Domain-Driven Design? Before all, we must ensure we can actually learn at work, as this is not always the case. The way we support…

In part 2 of this series, we applied the concepts first introduced in part 1 and designed a fictitious online dating software startup called eTumble. We produced “living documents” for our strategy, design, and architecture. …

In this story, I’ll show you how you can implement a good springboot modular monolith application that can become a microservices, without being hard a lot in the future. I think that the monolith architecture it’s not news to anyone. The classic style to implement this is a big app…

EAFP vs LBYL Easier to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission or Look Before You Leap. This is on a table today. To demonstrate what I mean let’s have a look at a simple example of a code. We have 2 functions that demonstrate 2 different approaches for the same functionality — reading the age…

Insights from Worldwide Software Architecture Summit vol.2 — Six months ago, I attended Worldwide Software Architecture Summit (WSAS’22), where many sessions were discussing complexity, especially the complexity of microservices. At that time, I wrote two insights as follows. Original Sin of Microservices, Part 1 Original Sin of Microservices, Part 2 The main point is building a microservice architecture…

One of the challenges of being a software architect is conveying the architecture to the team in an efficient manner. Imagine yourself as an architect, who has just designed an elegant system for a complex problem. You’ve spent hours on the whiteboard and finally figured out how it all fits…