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7/1/2024
13 : 24
Architecture Weekly #186 - 1st July 2024
This week, we covered the Polyfill JS supply chain attack that potentially touched 4% of the Internet. We also checked the DataDog report on the state of Cloud Spendings. We discussed whether it's
6/24/2024
13 : 14
Architecture Weekly #185 - 24th June 2024
This edition is 50 shaded of coupling! Yeah, I know how that sounds, but we discussed why coupling is not an end goal but a metric to evaluate tradeoffs. We also discussed how to actually make
6/17/2024
13 : 14
Architecture Weekly #184 - 17th June 2024
It's a new Monday, the right time for the new set of software architecture materials! This time, we started with visualisations that were made right for great explanations of queuing concepts. I
6/10/2024
11 : 24
Architecture Weekly #183 - 10th June 2024
To GraphQL or not to GraphQL, that's the question we started this edition. We discussed the different perspectives on that. One of the issues is authorisation management, and from that, we went
6/3/2024
11 : 44
Architecture Weekly #182 - 27th May 2024
Let's start this edition with the security. We always put it as the last point, but should we? We started with a spectacular Snowflake breach. We discussed if LLMS could help to avoid it (spoiler:
6/3/2024
10 : 34
Papers We Love #2 - How do committees invent? (Melvin E. Conway)
Watch now (73 mins) | Hey! 😀 In the 2nd edition of Papers We Love, we tackled the famous article Mel Conway's article where he introduced his law. You probably already know the quote: Organizations
6/3/2024
10 : 4
Architecture Weekly #181 - 27th May 2024
Boy, is it a new week already? It is, so let's see what #ArchitectureWeekly brought to you this time! We started with a discussion about Mel Conway's law, its wide impact and whether we could
5/20/2024
11 : 24
Architecture Weekly #180 - 20th May 2024
We started with an invitation to discuss Conway's Law. Then, we discussed recent Cloud provider mishaps. Well, one AWS mishap on the bill for a DDoSed S3 bucket and a nightmare from Google Cloud
5/13/2024
11 : 14
Architecture Weekly #179 - 13th May 2024
This release has a few themes. We started with event-driven (yeah, surprise!), discussing the potential errors and ways to handle them. Then we checked if serverless cold-starts are THAT scary and
5/6/2024
7 : 34
Architecture Weekly #178 - 6th May 2024
This time, we discussed biases. Biases on the perspective on our technologies, so not seeing their evolutions. We also checked how biases can impact our knowledge, collaboration and eventually also the
4/29/2024
10 : 14
Architecture Weekly #177 - 29nd April 2024
How do you make predictions about tech without the magical crystal ball? We did that today by example. We analysed what Redis and Terraform license changes relate to the new Typescript framework Effect
4/22/2024
7 : 4
Architecture Weekly #176 - 22nd April 2024
This week, we looked at mocking in tests and, more importantly, different shades of the load testing. We also discussed other tools that can help you reach the expected SLO. We looked at various
4/15/2024
10 : 54
Architecture Weekly #175 - 15th April 2024
This time we took a history lesson. We discussed the Adele Goldberg story on how Smalltalk language impacted the way we code today. We also went through the forgotten story of Harp McGovern and her
4/8/2024
18 : 54
Architecture Weekly #174 - 8th April 2024
We covered this time an XZ breach story. We provided perspectives from many angles: technical details, social engineering, and human to human. We also discussed brilliant jerks and jerks telling to
4/1/2024
10 : 4
Architecture Weekly #173 - 1st April 2024
We started with big-bang info from me and then jumped quickly to debugging our thinking and applying a systemic approach. Then, we discussed what the Valkey thing is and whether it is really such a
3/29/2024
16 : 24
Webinar #18 - Laïla Bougriâ: Debug your thinking
Watch now (87 mins) | Did you feel that you need to debug your mind? Did your (or your colleague's) biases impact your decision-making? How to improve it? How do you reason about the reasoning?
3/25/2024
14 : 4
Architecture Weekly #172 - 25th March 2024
This time, we did an all-around journey from understanding where money comes from, so budgeting. Then we followed the money and discussed OSS sustainability issues on the example of Redis and their
3/18/2024
12 : 34
Architecture Weekly #171 - 18th March 2024
We started by checking why May may be the month of Event Sourcing. Then we discussed Figma's way of dealing with database horizontal scaling and saw what new database improvements can bring WASM
3/11/2024
12 : 34
Architecture Weekly #170 - 11th March 2024
This time, we took a deep dive into being Secure By Design. We analysed and compared Google's and the White House's recommendations. We looked at the Event Interception pattern and discussed if
3/4/2024
12 : 44
Architecture Weekly #169 - 4th March 2024
Today, We did a roundtrip through the big tech case studies: Uber, Doordash, Stripe and more. We compared their takes on the emerging trends like cell-based architectures, we discussed Stripe's