Architecture

Is Vertical Slice Architecture better than Clean Architecture or Ports and Adapters? You’ll hear a lot advocating for Vertical Slices and often, when doing so, trying to pin it against other types like clean, onion, ports and adapters. So which one is better? YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Clean Architecture You might be familiar with this diagram illustrating Clean architecture. What’s defined in each ring is unimportant and there can be more or less of them. What’s important about it is the arrows… Read More »Is Vertical Slice Architecture better than Clean Architecture or Ports and Adapters?

We’ve all written long procedural code with many logic branches that must handle failures because it tries to execute a long business process with many actions. Better alternatives exist than writing a rat’s nest of complex procedural code. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Procedural We’ve all probably written or looked at code similar to the following. It does a few things: first, it adds and saves an order to the database; then, it tries to process the credit card payment; and lastly, it… Read More »Goodbye, long procedural code! Fix it with workflows

Keep one small part of your system from taking down the entire system. Let’s look at the bulkhead pattern, the various ways you think about it, and how it applies to your architecture, which will help you with fault tolerance to keep your system running. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Problem With a large system, it’s easy for one part to affect the performance of other parts. This is true for monoliths but also for more distributed service-oriented systems. Most systems have heavily… Read More »The Bulkhead Pattern: How To Make Your System Fault-tolerant