Let’s play a game called Guess the Software Architecture! Can you guess the software architecture in these diagrams in this post? What characteristics determine which type of software architecture is being used? Do you think its a monolith or microservices? Or possibly something else! YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Evolution So, first, we’ll start with an HTTP API that talks with a database. The HTTP API could be a single process or within a container, and it could be scaled out horizontally behind… Read More »Is this a Monolith or Microservices?

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?