The hotel reservation problem is a common scenario in distributed systems and is covered in various resources including Ticketmaster and Grokking material. Similar problems include Airline ticketing, ...

Microservices architecture has brought many benefits to software development, such as faster scaling and development, but also introduced difficulties like communication and code duplication. Shared l...

Holly Cummins, senior principal software engineer on the Quarkus team at Red Hat, discusses the challenges that come with cloud adoption in her upcoming GOTO Amsterdam 2022 talk titled Cloud Chaos and...

When it comes to developing software, communication is key. Tools such as diagrams and models aid in understanding and sharing ideas about software architecture. While standalone diagrams are great fo...

Miro is the ultimate tool for remote collaboration. With Miro, you can easily create and collaborate on visual content with your team, no matter where you are. Miro offers a range of features, includi...

arc42 is a proven and pragmatic approach to construct, communicate and document software architecture. It provides a flexible but systematic template for documentation and communication that supports ...

In this post, Simon Willison discusses some recommended software engineering practices for development teams. He emphasizes the importance of internal documentation, and how storing documentation in t...

In this article, Nicholas Frush shares his thoughts on the lost art of architecting software systems. He argues that the rise of the cloud has not eliminated the need for paying attention to how you d...

In this article, Itiel Maayan discusses the challenges of managing a person who appears and is managed as multiple entities in a system, worsened by the move to microservices architecture. Maayan prop...

In this article, Metin Barkın Narin discusses the distributed transaction management problem in microservices architecture and suggests two approaches for addressing the problem: two-phase commit (2PC...

Discover McDonald’s journey in developing a unified platform enabling real-time, event-driven architectures. This two-part post walks you through the implementation journey, explaining how it works an...

This article discusses how system design is foundational in building software architecture for distributed systems, and covers essential knowledge areas necessary for preparing for a system design int...

Microservices architecture is a service-oriented architecture that structures an application as a collection of small autonomous services designed around a business domain. This blog covers the fundam...

In this article, Hila Fox talks about the importance of setting the right foundations for companies that grow rapidly using practical Domain-Driven Design (DDD) concepts. She explains how Augury creat...

In this post, Hila Fox shares how DDD is used in Augury to create their Microservices Architectural guidelines—focusing on three common patterns. The article covers definitions of Bounded Context and ...

This article explores the use of the CQRS pattern for implementing complex queries in a microservice architecture. CQRS offers advantages such as independent scaling, improved separation of concerns, ...

The article by Jason Clarke discusses the fundamentals of solution architecture and provides tips for becoming a better solution architect. The role of a Solution Architect (SA) is explained in detail...

In this post, we explore how to configure Auto Scaling rules in Azure Container Apps using Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler (KEDA). We cover the different scaling triggers supported in Container App...

In this Medium article, Nikola Schou proposes improvements to the C4-model, a popular standard for software architecture diagrams. Schou suggests changing the four key abstractions from context, conta...

Mark Siegman gave a talk on improving software development productivity, focusing on the issue of spending more time reading code than writing it. He used Robert C. Martins quote that the ratio of cod...