Just WowThe soft skills that solution architects apartTechnical expertise is undoubtedly the most important skill for a Solution Architect, but soft skills can be the critical differentiating…Sep 12Sep 12
Just WowDistinction without a difference: technical architectsI’m not going to lie, it took me longer than it should have to figure out the difference between a solution and software architect.Sep 10Sep 10
Just WowHow to Break Down a Monolith into Smaller ServicesDisclaimer: Not all monoliths are bad. In fact, some of them are remarkably efficient and suited to specific needs. I would normally…Sep 3Sep 3
Just WowArchitecting a Comprehensive Logging and Observability System with Open Source TechnologiesThis post was rewritten following changes to ELK licensing and the recent dominance of OpenTelemetry.Aug 5Aug 5
Just WowStrategies for Simplifying ApplicationsApplications tend to quickly become more complex as they evolve. Sometimes additional features make complexity inevitable. Other times…Jul 30Jul 30
Just WowPreparing data pipelines for AIArtificial Intelligence is revolutionizing industries by enabling data-driven decision-making and automation. For a reasonably mature…Jul 16Jul 16
Just WowRearchitecting an AWS E-Commerce Website for Performance and ResilienceYour current e-commerce website, running as a monolithic application on a single EC2 instance, is facing performance issues during traffic…Jul 10Jul 10
Just WowAddressing a Growing SaaS DatabaseAs your SaaS offering grows, evolving from a single-tenant, single-instance database to a multi-tenant, multi-instance, and multi-region…Jul 2Jul 2
Just WowBlast from 2020: the Web 3.0 hypeI originally wrote this in 2020 for another blog and am now copying here as it recently came to mind.Jun 19Jun 19
Just WowWhy Some Companies Fail to Realize Benefits from Microservice ArchitecturesIn recent years, microservices have become a popular architectural style, promising significant benefits in scalability, flexibility, and…Jun 6Jun 6