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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts – Saga Comparison Matrix and Movie Analogies

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I really enjoyed rereading Chapter 12 of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod S. and Zhamak Dehghani (O’Reilly 2022) this May break🌞. That chapter is about Transactional Sagas, and I couldn’t resist turning it into a short post 🙂. The authors take the forces of communication, consistency, and coordination and turn them […]

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David Boyne’s EDA Visuals: Governance Enables EDA Freedom

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📢Just finished EDA Visuals by 🚀 David Boyne and it’s a must-read if you’re working with distributed systems. It’s especially valuable for visual learners like me🤓who prefer diagrams (less text, more pictures please 😊). 🌟 What stood out to me most in this guide is that governance is not an afterthought. As an event-driven landscape

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Architecture for Flow – Blending DDD, Wardley Map and Teams Topologies

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Really enjoyed reading 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰 by Susanne Kaiser over the Christmas holidays. The book clearly shows that combining #teamTopologies, #wardleyMaps and #DDD creates a synergy far stronger than any of them could achieve on their own. The key lies in connecting three dots that often exist in isolation:💼 Wardley Mapping → map your landscape

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Software Architecture: The Hard Parts – Takeaways from the Book

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📣 Really enjoyed reading Software Architecture: The Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod S. and Zhamak Dehghani (O’Reilly 2022) as a natural follow-up to Fundamentals of Software Architecture. While Fundamentals introduces core concepts and laws of software architecture, The Hard Parts dives into the messy, trade-off-heavy situations that don’t have clean answers, especially

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