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Photo by Samson on Unsplash Have you ever wondered why software projects often fail despite having a solid architecture in place? Software architecture is often misunderstood as an activity carried ou
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Image courtesy of https://undraw.co/ Originally posted September 2021 on the Split Blog When writing APIs, REST (short for representational state transfer) is considered the standard. And yet, REST it
Key Takeaways The role of an architect has evolved from a command and control to a technical coaching and mentoring role Architectural considerations are everyone’s responsibility and problem to addre
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For the last decade, the tech sector has been on a mission to decrease its dependence on central SQL-monoliths. The mainstay of these efforts were focused on microservices and its “ loose coupling ” a
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In this post, explore what observability and monitoring systems, the patterns of a good observability platform, and the observability subsystem may look like. In the past few years, the complexity of
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Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a
Caching data is a useful pattern for any application that needs to serve high traffic and finds itself with latency requirements incompatible with the selected persistence choice. While simple at firs
WebAuthn technology is pivotal to passwordless authentication. When implemented correctly, the specification makes it simple and secure to sign in to accounts without entering a traditional password.
Lessons learned from painful experiences in working on god object-dominated projects without clear business logic. Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash Business Logic Is Often Kept in the Service Layer
In today’s world, a well-tuned CI/CD pipeline is a critical component for any development team looking to build and ship high-quality software fast. But here’s the thing: It’s rare you’ll find two CI/
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Distributed monoliths occur when the structure of an organisation and its code is split up whilst still being tightly coupled. This becomes a problem because the scale of the system increases but all
Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonicaldocument from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architectureof Amazon’s ecommerce platform. It highlights the challen
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