Layered Architecture

And how it shows up in Microservice Architectures

This is a first in a series on software architecture that I am planning to write. I will be focused mostly on architectures that I have discovered in the wild by inheriting an older…

Your API Gateway should actually be a Message Queue

Or why we need Digital Osmosis

Composite Keys in JPA

Making friends with enemies

The general consensus seem to be that composite keys and Hibernate are not bedfellows. And if you are designing a system and are creating a table you should just add an auto incrementing integer index. Your table is not…

Do we still need Software Architects

Agile Development and the role of the Architect

Model-View-Controller Architecture

MVC applied across different scenarios

This is the second in a series on software architecture that I am planning to write. I will be focused mostly on architectures that I have discovered in the wild by inheriting an…

From Request/Response to Events

How to transition from one to the other within your Microservice Architecture

Generally, the internet is based on the traditional request/response (r/r) pattern and for most part this is fine…

How many architects does it take to change a light bulb

Looking at the problem of responsibility and…

Writing Testable code

And why that’s important

Story driven development

Not just business requirements in card form

Shearing Layers in Software Design

Using a theory from Architecture in Software Design