Architecture

Migrate to a Vertical Slice Architecture from a monolith? Is it more like microservices? Does it replace Clean Architecture? None of the above. It’s about being driven by cohesion of business capabilities and business processes. It has nothing to do with layers or physical deployment concerns. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Vertical Slice Architecture Vertical Slice Architecture has everything to do with business capabilities and nothing to do with a monolith, microservices, clean architecture, or hexagonal imports and adapters. It’s all about defining… Read More »Vertical Slice Architecture isn’t technical

Nobody wants their codebase to turn into a brownfield mess legacy codebase having to use outdated technology. Here are 3 tips for keeping your codebase evergreen. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Understanding Stability and Advancements How do you keep your codebase Evergreen and avoid it being a legacy codebase? Let’s say you recently started a greenfield project, and you know it will be maintained over the years, adding new functionality. You don’t want it to turn into legacy or something that’s considered brownfield.… Read More »Avoiding a Legacy Codebase. Keep it Evergreen

Your customers do not care about the technology behind your app. What programming language, frameworks, libraries, or whatever tooling you’re using, they don’t care. They care about it providing them value and that it has certain characteristics. They want it to work. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Context Matters Of course, there’s nuance to this—context matters. For instance, if your customers are developers, they likely care about how the application is built. This blog/video is inspired by a wonderful tweet that illustrates this… Read More »Your Customers Don’t Care About JavaScript