Bottleneck-Driven Architecture?
A recent LinkedIn post makes the point that before moving to microservices you should ask what is the bottleneck. Let’s look in more detail. Links:
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Can Claude help with legacy code?
Can Claude help with legacy code? Let’s try to use it and see what value it adds and what limitations it hits.
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Is Hexagonal Architecture Overengineering?
Overengineering is a common problem in software development. Does hexagonal architecture fit this pattern? Let’s examine this idea. Links:
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Microtools with LLMs
A recent LinkedIn post by Simon Wardley raises an interesting point: what if we would build microtools fit for our environments using LLMs? Let’s examine this idea. Links:
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Best Practices vs Emergent Practice
We often get asked to include best practices in our learning programs, and often we need to explain during the training that the best thing we can do is to have emergent practices. Let me explain why. Links:
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Fitness Functions Driven Architecture
Fitness functions are metrics mapped with architectural concerns that help channel the evolution of the architecture towards desired results. When monitored properly, they help the system maintain its qualities over time. An interesting twist is that fitness functions can be automated before the implementation, or modified when the conditions change, with a practice called fitness
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Space Based Architecture
If you’re interested to learn more, join now the architectural kata on Space Based architecture on 3 July 2025: https://mozaicworks.com/product/performed-architectural-kata-series-space-based-architecture. Space Based Architecture is an architectural style that has recently gained traction within large organizations. While not a new idea (it was created by Microsoft in 1997-1998), it is a very interesting alternative to microservices
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Open Questions On LLMs
Alex is looking at four fundamental questions about Large Language Models: Transcript Are LLMs intelligent can they create something new what are their limitations and do prompts matter? These are a few things that I want to discuss in this video and I don’t believe I will get to the bottom of all these issues
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AI Assistants Are Here To Stay
Two-thirds of enterprise leaders won’t hire you without AI skills. That’s not clickbait – that’s from a recent ThoughtWorks article. And if you’re still calling AI coding assistants ‘too risky,’ you might already be in the unacceptable column at companies like Zapier. I was skeptical and had mixed feelings about LLMs. But now I believe
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Do AI Assistants Speed Up Development?
A report published by Thought Works in February 2025 looked at the impact of coding assistants on development speed. They found out that the delivery speed improvement is between 2% and 15%. But the interesting things are qualitative: how did they measure? How can you measure by yourself? And where were the assistants most useful?
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