A collection of 9 posts
In this article you'll find: what is "capability", why UI-driven application design is sh*t, why conceptual layering is important, which parts of software are less change-friendly & whether it's a problem, why "fibers" are the single worst anti-pattern (even…
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In this post you'll find: how sharding can work (well) together with CQRS, what tricks can be used for re-partitiong data in live instances (w/o downtime) and why it's OK to use domain-related data in routing on API gateway…
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In this post you'll find: micro-monolith neo-evangelism :), great (video) example of premature system distribution hitting the fan ..., demystifying of microservice independence myth and what are X-centric systems. I hate blog posts, books or conf talks that focus on criticising only…
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TL;DR Contrary to the common belief, proper conceptual decomposition of large software solutions doesn't require any particular architecture patterns in place. Being service-oriented doesn't necessarily enforce any constraints on build or deployment - it's a matter of proper, highly…
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TL;DR Software Engineers see world in patterns, they look for common denominators, not accepting the fact that something may be an one & only instance. That's why we sometimes end up building frameworks for single problem occurrences ("we'll…
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TL;DR Decomposition of functional requirements into atomic User Stories doesn't mean that activity of elaborate design is redundant - there's always a need of shaping the system's conceptual model: usually at various levels of detail (for different reader categories)…
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