🪵 There’s a woodpecker on the cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts. Probably a coincidence – O’Reilly doesn’t pick cover animals to match the topic. But I like to imagine it’s a particularly determined one drilling into the same hard spot, over and over, until something gives – which is what got me thinking […]
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AI is getting remarkably good at the HOW. It can generate code, propose architectures, compare design patterns, and automate implementation.That’s exactly why architects need to become even better at the WHY. If I could rename the role, I’d jokingly call it Problem Architect instead of Solution Architect. 🙂 Not because solutions aren’t important, but because
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 holiday🌞. 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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📢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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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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