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Data Partitioning! Don’t let growth SLOW you down!

Why would you want data partitioning? Data keeps growing. Hopefully, you’re working on a system with active customers with a good lifespan! If so, the amount of stored data will keep growing over time. The challenge can be managing data growth, which can start to impact performance. I will discuss ways to use this data and strategies to avoid it affecting performance. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Multi-Tenant In a multi-tenant application, there are multiple ways to silo data. First, you can use… Read More »Data Partitioning! Don’t let growth SLOW you down!

Event Choreography for Loosely Coupled Workflow

What’s Event Choreography Workflow? Let’s back up a bit to answer that. Event Driven Architecture is a way to make your system more extensible and loosely coupled. Using events as a way to communicate between service boundaries. But how do you handle long-running business processes and workflows that involve multiple services? Using RPC is going back to tight coupling, which we’re trying to avoid with Event Driven Architecture. So what’s a solution? Event Choreography. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. RPC So why not… Read More »Event Choreography for Loosely Coupled Workflow

What is Software Architecture?

Software architecture is about making critical decisions that will impact how you can make decisions in the future. It’s about giving yourself options at a relatively low cost early on so your system can evolve without a high cost. Software architecture is about options. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Cost of Options Software should be malleable. It shouldn’t be so rigid that you can’t change it because of new requirements or insights about the domain or the model you’ve built. You want to… Read More »What is Software Architecture?