From Monolith to Mesh
Quick summary on some trends for more efficient software development and focusing more on core product value instead.
While working on the next generation of SQL Editor, we have been noticing more and more the concept of integrating specialized components together to decrease development cost while increasing the end user usability.
“Integrating Best of breed Components”
Here are a few examples:
Micro Frontend
Finer grain and technology agnostics Web Application:
Web Component programming
Within each application, sub-dividing into smaller pieces:
Data Platform Mesh
Specialized services integrated together freeing your team from siloes or having to manage all the tooling. e.g. here replace Snowflake by your Data Warehouse of choice..
Live demos
Quick play instead of traditional marketing content:
Personally
It is becoming possible and efficient to “zoom out” more and design to leverage multiple domains stitched together instead of a single one. e.g:
Hue SQL Editor
It has been 10 years of evolution on interlinking 15+ different services and a rapidly moving tech stack. Now the user interfaces is getting split into contained Web Components and major ones can be easily reused publicly (offering even more feedback and testing). Same is happening at the API level as it is becoming smaller clean modules (more on this in an upcoming post).
Adventuring
n similar parallel can be found in other domains like discovering the World. Some of the most rewarding trips so far involved combining/meshing together several disciplines:
- Trekking + Packrafting in Bob Marshall, Montana or Canyonland, Utah
- Glacier + Scrambling + Trekking in Patagonia
- Rock climbing + Trekking in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains
And some people do bike-rafting, bike-packing, raft-skiing, trek-paragliding…
