architecture

When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.

Maximizing Postgres connection economy by using a single connection per program to receive and distribute all listen/notify notifications.

If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.

Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.

Discover how the Backend for Frontends (BFF) pattern can revolutionize the way you structure your applications, ensuring a smoother and more efficient interaction between your frontend and backend systems.

How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style

In the world of programming, there are many concepts that every developer should understand in order to build efficient and reliable systems. One such vital concept is idempotency, which refers to the property of an operation or function that produces the same result when applied multiple times as it does when applied only once. This may seem like a simple concept, but it has significant implications for building distributed systems. In this article, we will explore what idempotency is, why it i

A catalog of patterns to better understand, communicate, and teach the design of distributed systems

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There are a few ways for services to communicate that can be rightfully classified as asynchronous. But they have very different characteristics. Let's have a look at them and their impact on the overall system structure.

To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.

Vercel Security Checkpoint

Vercel Security Checkpoint

Like tidying up a house before a total renovation, preparing your monolith is the first step towards transitioning to microservices.

When it comes to the events, the big debate is about the contents of its body. Martin Fowler has written a great post on this topic. Some devs argue that events should carry the complete load with …

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