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Stop Joining Tables In Your “Modular” Monolith

Modular monoliths are all the rage. You have well defined modules built around business capabilities. Maybe inside those modules you are using something like Clean Architecture. You have separation of concerns. You have direction of dependencies. Everything looks great and you think, “Wow, finally I have a really good structure.” But do you? YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing everything in this post. Modular Monlith You are looking at an order management system, viewing a particular order, and somebody wants to see the quantity on hand… Read More »Stop Joining Tables In Your “Modular” Monolith

Debugging Event-Driven Systems: 5 Problems Teams Create

A post on Medium was shared with me by a member of my channel. A team went all in on event-driven architecture, and now they feel like they can’t debug anything. I get it, debugging event-driven systems can seem challenging. But it’s not directly because of event-driven architecture. It’s because of their misunderstanding of it and how they were applying it. So let’s break down the five pain points they had, why they had that pain, and how you can avoid it. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this… Read More »Debugging Event-Driven Systems: 5 Problems Teams Create

Testing Needs a Seam, Not an Interface

In my last video, I said that clean architecture was killing your velocity. And man, you guys had thoughts. The number one pushback, the hill a lot of people were willing to die on, was testing. And I get it. On the surface, it sounds reasonable. Create some interface or abstraction for testing purposes. But that assumption starts to fall apart once you look at what testing actually needs. Testing needs a seam. It does not automatically need an interface. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing… Read More »Testing Needs a Seam, Not an Interface