Architecture

What advice would I give a software developer? Software development, design, and architecture can feel overwhelming. Especially when you’re just trying to get into it as there is so much to learn. What exactly should you focus on? A particular framework, language, or library? After over 20 years of software development as a career writing line of business and enterprise systems, here are the top 5 pieces of advice I’d tell my younger self. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Business… Read More »ADVICE to my younger self as a Software Developer

What does an anti-corruption layer solve? Most systems rely on data or behaviors from another service or an external 3rd party. The problem is they often don’t share the same semantics or data structures. Left unchecked this leads to convoluting up your own boundary with concepts from another boundary. Let me explain how you can use an anti-corruption layer as a way to translate the concepts from another boundary in isolation. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Anti-corruption Layer A Service… Read More »Anti-corruption Layer for mapping between Boundaries

A long-running business process could last seconds to days, you cannot lock resources within a service using a distributed transaction. So what’s the alternative? The real world has a solution, it’s a reservation. The reservation pattern allows you to have a time-bound limited guarantee which allows you to coordinate with other services. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Distributed Transaction When working with a traditional monolith, you can use a database transaction. Wrap all the relevant database calls within a transaction,… Read More »Avoiding Distributed Transactions with the Reservation Pattern