I've encountered a very similar situation in so many companies: their IT landscape grew all the time (while nothing was decommissioned), layers they've initially got became more complicated or even split into sub-layers: sometimes parallel, sometimes stacked. Obviously, different components frequently utilize different technologies, so...
Few days ago I've run into this article on InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/ioda-architecture I found it amusing enough to dive deeper here (link taken from the article): http://geekswithblogs.net/theArchitectsNapkin/archive/2015/04/29/the-ioda-architecture.aspx I won'...
The concept of Microservices, even if a bit ephemeral, gets a lot of love nowadays. Reasons are quite straightforward, so I'm not going through that once again - what bothers me is some kind of misconception / overinterpretation I've already encountered few times. Microservices (MS): * YES, encapsulate service...
The struggle against coupling doesn't just seem eternal. It IS eternal. Multi-dimensionality (compile-time, deploy-time, run-time, ...) of the problem, easiness of breaking the state that was achieved with the great effort, complexity of validation / monitoring (try to quantify coupling in a way that makes sense...
Have you heard about Lambda Architecture (LA)? It's an interesting concept introduced by Nathan Marz ("the father" of Apache Storm [https://storm.apache.org/]) and it's basically about processing massive quantitive of data using two parallel streams: * batch stream - this one is able to...
I hate starting a blog post without a clear statement or a question to be answered. But sometimes it's just the best way - hopefully things will clear out for you during the reading. No more "free lunch" Technology is advancing like crazy since I can remember....
