Reliable Microservices Data Exchange With Streaming Database
In a microservices architecture, exchanging data between multiple services is a major challenge. The Outbox pattern can address this challenge by promoting asynchronous and decoupled data exchange bet...
Software Design Fundamentals in 2023: Essential Concepts for Modern Software Developers — Part I
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, software developers must stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices. This three-part series covers various topics, such as architectural patt...
Software Design Fundamentals in 2023: Essential Concepts for Modern Software Developers — Part II
In this Medium member-only story, aruva - empowering ideas continues their three-part blog series on essential concepts for modern software developers. Part II focuses on programming principles like S...
Software Design Fundamentals in 2023: Essential Concepts for Modern Software Developers — Part III
In this part III of the series, aruva - empowering ideas discusses virtualization and containerization, Iaas, PaaS and SaaS, OAuth and OIDC; anatomy of a JWT token, Web Security principles around cros...
Dev Containers. What are they and why do you need them? - Joseph Guadagno - NDC Oslo 2023

Joe Guidagno, Senior Director for a mortgage company and Vice Chairperson of the .net Foundation, explains the benefits of using Dev Containers in Visual Studio Code. He emphasizes the need to solve t...
High Optionality Programming: Architectural Choices That Mitigate Technical Debt - Aaron Stannard

In this talk, Aaron Stannard discusses software architecture and technical debt, which occurs when a decision made early in a projects life cycle results in significant changes that must be made throu...
Minimum Viable Architecture • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022

Randy Shoup, former VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay, gave a talk on minimal viable architecture, highlighting that there is no one perfect architecture for all scales, phases of evolutio...
Durable entities - Azure Functions
Entity functions allow for reading and updating small pieces of state, also known as durable entities. They provide a means of scaling out applications and are accessed via a unique identifier, the en...
Building Secure Microservices in Azure - Jimmy Bogard - NDC London 2023

The speaker, Jimmy Bogard, introduces himself and provides links to his social media and blog. He explains that he works as a consultant, building applications and systems for clients. He discusses a ...
Backward Compatible Database Changes
Learn about safely using the contract, migrate, and expand pattern to make database schema changes without downtime and data loss. By deploying changes to two critical systems at once, such as your da...
Just-in-time Architecture • Macklin Hartley • YOW! 2022

The speaker introduces themselves and discusses their company, vgw, a Perth-based startup turned non-startup. They explain that their talk is meant to cover topics for a new and diverse team, includin...
Domain-Driven Design: Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technology
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a software development approach introduced by Eric Evans that focuses on creating software systems closely aligned with the business domain and its needs. DDD emphasizes ...
How To Survive Your Projects First 100,000 Lines
After hitting its 100,000th line of code, the Vale compiler survived thanks to techniques ranging from determinism, testing, type-system techniques, and general architectural best-practices. This arti...
SwimOS - a full stack application platform for building stateful web services, streaming APIs, and real-time UIs
SwimOS is a powerful application platform that allows developers to build stateful web services, streaming APIs and real-time UIs. With a stateful backend, SwimOS allows developers to build web servic...
Prime Video Reduces Operational Cost by 90% by Re-Architecting Audio/Video Quality Inspection Solution
Amazons Prime Video streaming service shares how it reduced operational costs by 90% by re-architecting its audio/video quality inspection solution to address scalability issues by converting workload...
Automation Is Hard & We Are Doing It Wrong • Johan Abildskov • GOTO 2022

The speaker, Johan, introduces himself and discusses his experience as a software engineer and author. He believes that while Git is useful, it is working on the wrong level of abstraction to be of mu...
Platform as a Runtime (PaaR) - Beyond Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering is a crucial aspect of software development, and Wix has been practicing it for over a decade. In this article, Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix.com, shares insights into the n...
Multi-model, NoSQL Real-time Data Platform for Large-scale JSON and SQL Use Cases | Aerospike
The Aerospike Real-time Data Platform is a multi-model, NoSQL database offering the lowest latency and predictable performance at any scale, with five-nines uptime and up to 80% less infrastructure re...
System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide
In this blog post, Love Sharma provides a comprehensive guide and cheat sheet for developing a robust and scalable system. The post covers essential components such as DNS, load balancing, API Gateway...
Teach Yourself Computer Science - A Guide to Learning Computer Science for Self-Taught Engineers and Bootcamp Graduates
Learn computer science without investing years and a small fortune in a degree program. Study nine subjects using suggested textbooks and video lecture series in roughly the presented order. Aim for 1...