Architecture as Code: Part 2 - Building the Foundation
Transform architecture from abstract concepts into enforceable code. Discover explicit decisions, automated validation, and living documentation that prevent 2 AM production disasters.
Category: Architecture
Architecture as Code: Part 1 - The Revolution Begins
What happens when architecture diagrams become outdated weeks after creation? Discover how Architecture as Code transforms static documentation into executable, verifiable system design.
Static Site Generators - Why Simple Beats Complex in Modern Web Development
Why maintain a Ferrari when a bicycle would do? Discover how static site generators deliver blazing speed, ironclad security, and near-zero costsāproving simple beats complex.
Understanding Reverse Proxy: The Unsung Hero of Enterprise Architecture
Ever wondered what sits between users and your backend servers? Discover why reverse proxies are essential in enterprise design and whether they're really another point of failure.
Near Real-Time Database Analytics: Architectural Patterns and Implementation
Explore four architectural patterns for near real-time analytics: Lambda, Kappa, Event-Driven Microservices, and Medallion. Learn when to use each approach and how to implement them effectively.
Should Databases Allow Direct Application Connections in Enterprise?
Multiple applications connecting directly to your databaseāconvenient or catastrophic? Explore why enterprise architects debate this fundamental design decision.
Site Reliability Engineering: Evolution and Modern Practices in 2022
Exploring how Site Reliability Engineering has evolved beyond Google's original model, examining modern practices, tools, and the shift toward platform engineering in 2022.
Database Backup Strategies - Beyond Simple Dumps
Database backups aren't just SQL dumps. Learn how to design robust database backup strategies that ensure consistency, minimize downtime, and protect against data corruptionābefore disaster strikes.
Data Backup Strategies - From Planning to Recovery
Backups aren't just about copying files. Learn how to design resilient backup strategies that protect against data loss, ransomware, and disastersābefore you need them.
LTM and GSLB: The Foundation of Modern Traffic Management
Local Traffic Managers and Global Server Load Balancing form the backbone of high-availability systems. Understand how they work, when to use each, and the trade-offs between complexity and resilience.
Public API vs Private API: Understanding Application Interfaces
Explore the critical differences between public and private APIs in iOS, Android, and web applications. Learn when to use each approach and how to design robust application interfaces.
Architecture Patterns Quick Reference
A comprehensive quick reference guide to cloud architecture patterns. Find the right pattern for your challenge with decision trees, comparison tables, and practical selection criteria.
The Asynchronous Request-Reply Pattern: Building Responsive Distributed Systems
Discover how the Asynchronous Request-Reply pattern enables responsive applications by decoupling long-running operations from immediate responses, preventing timeouts and improving user experience.
The Bulkhead Pattern: Isolating Failures in Distributed Systems
Discover how the Bulkhead pattern prevents cascading failures by isolating resources and limiting the blast radius when components fail in distributed systems.
OLTP vs OLAP: Understanding Transaction and Analytics Databases
Discover the fundamental differences between OLTP and OLAP systems. Learn when to use transaction databases for daily operations and analytics databases for business intelligence.
Circuit Breaker Pattern: Preventing Cascading Failures
Learn how the Circuit Breaker pattern protects distributed systems from cascading failures by temporarily blocking calls to failing services, allowing time for recovery.
Federated Identity: One Login to Rule Them All
Delegate authentication to external identity providers to simplify development, reduce administrative overhead, and improve user experience across multiple applications and organizations.
Health Endpoint Monitoring: Keeping Your Services Alive and Well
Implement health checks through dedicated endpoints to monitor application availability and performance. Learn how to verify your services are running correctly before users discover problems.
The Publisher-Subscriber Pattern: Decoupling Communication at Scale
Enable applications to announce events to multiple consumers asynchronously without coupling senders to receivers. Learn how pub/sub messaging improves scalability and reliability.
Gateway Aggregation Pattern: Reducing Network Chattiness
Combine multiple backend requests into a single call through a gateway. Learn how this pattern reduces network overhead and improves performance in distributed systems.
The Sharding Pattern: Scaling Data Stores Horizontally
Divide your data store into horizontal partitions to improve scalability and performance. Learn how sharding distributes data across multiple servers to handle massive volumes.
The Sidecar Pattern: Extending Applications Without Touching Code
Deploy supporting components alongside your application in separate containers. Learn how the Sidecar pattern enables isolation, encapsulation, and heterogeneous technology stacks.
Strangler Fig Pattern: Pattern or Strategy?
Incrementally migrate legacy systems by gradually replacing functionality with new services. But is Strangler Fig truly a pattern, or is it a migration strategy? Let's explore this architectural approach and its philosophical classification.
Materialized View Pattern: Optimizing Query Performance Through Precomputed Data
Learn how the Materialized View pattern improves query performance by precomputing and storing data in formats optimized for specific queries, and how it differs from database materialized views.