The debate of microservices vs monoliths has been reignited by a blog post from the Amazon Prime Video Quality Analysis Team, detailing a case study of improved scalability and reduced operational costs after switching from a serverless architecture to a monolith. So are monoliths better than microservices or serverless? Does Amazon do things differently than […]
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Alex reacts to the latest InfoQ Architecture Trends article: https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-trends-2023/.
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In a recent Twitter thread, Dave Anderson (ex GM and Tech Director at Amazon) has proposed a list of 10 commandments for legacy code. Do we agree with them? Watch this video to find out. Here’s the link to the thread: https://twitter.com/scarletinked/status/1645426515000139776?t=PpKqiMMEG-OVca2y0He5ow&s=09.
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For a few days, Lebanon had two time zones at the same time on the same territory. This shows once again that “one will be more” when it comes to the evolution of software products. A brief reaction video from Alex.
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A recent InfoQ article describes a simple framework for architectural decisions, using three main elements: Internal Technology Radar, Internal Tech Guidelines, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). All three of these are very useful enabling constraints for organizations, but the way you would adopt them may prove a bit difficult. In this video, Alex reacts to
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IT and business often position themselves as customer – provider, which makes IT a cost center rather than a contributor to profit. Also, many software architects we’ve worked with, or developers interested in software architecture, have a big issue when trying to communicate trade-offs and architectural decisions to business stakeholders. A recent InfoQ article delves
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A long lasting advice in the past years has been: favour composition over inheritance. But does this mean inheritance has no more uses? We learned more about this topic when Samir Talwar sparked a conversation on Mastodon about inheritance and its uses, later joined by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and leading into very interesting insights about the
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Chaos Engineering has appeared as a very useful practice for increasing application resiliency. However, most teams start using Chaos Engineering only after incidents happened and after a lot of pain in dealing with the reliability issues. Is it possible to have a proactive reliability practice, a shift-left in this domain, similar to what TDD is
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Yesterday, I was the guest speaker for the Cloud Native Meetup Group from Bucharest. I gave a talk in Romanian about laws, principles, and practices for microservices architecture. Check out the recording below or on YouTube. If you’d like us to record the same talk in English, in studio settings, please let us know in
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When you start developing based on your architecture, you are entering a socio-technical system, a system that will evolve in various directions depending on outside and internal factors. This evolution is difficult to manage, and a potential solution is to use the concept of architectural fitness functions. In this video, we look at what they
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