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2/27/2024
7 : 4
Webinar #17 - Andrea Magnorsky: Introducing Bytesize Architecture Sessions!
Watch now (90 mins) | We all struggle with too-long meetings, confusing design discussions and analysis paralysis. How can we reason better about our systems in a collaborative way? Does your team
2/26/2024
13 : 44
Architecture Weekly #168 - 26th February 2024
Today's leitmotif is revisiting our past decisions. We discussed lessons from 4 years of building and running infrastructure in a startup. Then we went to the discussion around CockroachDB vs
2/19/2024
14 : 34
Architecture Weekly #167 - 19th February 2024
We started this time of the semi-philosophical discussions like what's the use case? Are pros and cons the same as consequences? Then we got more to the ground touching unusual topics like end-to-
2/12/2024
12 : 44
Architecture Weekly #166 - 12th February 2024
We started with the announcement about Emmett - my new library and smoothly transitioned into the discussion on data governance. Firstly, in event-driven systems, data sovereignty is an issue of
2/5/2024
7 : 34
Architecture Weekly #165 - 5th February 2024
We started with the DevOps and Platform approach pitfalls, discussing Charity Majors's take and adding Conway's law into that. Then we reviewed the strategies for architecting multi-region
1/29/2024
11 : 54
Architecture Weekly #164 - 29th January 2024
MVP, RAT, MVA and other minimum viability approaches
1/26/2024
13 : 24
Webinar #16 - Simple patterns for events schema versioning
Watch now | Events schema versioning, or in other words, events evolution, is one of the first questions I get when explaining Event Sourcing. The topic may look scary, as how to evolve data that, by
1/22/2024
9 : 24
Architecture Weekly #163 - 22nd January 2024
Today, we discussed the evolution. Not humankind but our data models and architecture. We found actionable guidance on how DDD techniques can help with that. We had a look at the Slack migration to
1/15/2024
7 : 4
Architecture Weekly #162 - 15th January 2024
We started with getting back to Leslie Lamport's works, Cynefin and added Wardley Mapping to the game. We discussed how to and how to not think about our decisions and strategy. Also for product
1/8/2024
11 : 24
Architecture Weekly #161 - 8th January 2024
Welcome to the new week! We started today with big words like Complexity and followed them with even smarter-sounding words like Cynefin and TLA+. We explained why those decision-making frameworks are
1/1/2024
13 : 14
Architecture Weekly #160 - 1st January 2024
First day of the New Year, and the first edition! This time, we're reflecting on the state of our industry and starting with the Reuters report about Tesla's weak quality practices. We're
12/25/2023
8 : 4
Architecture Weekly #159 - 25th December 2023
In the last release of 2023, we checked both past and new things. Learn about what Netlify thinks about the state of web development, Jepsen about MySQL guarantees, and more about PostgreSQL isolation.
12/21/2023
10 : 24
Papers We Love #1 - Sagas (Hector Garcia-Molina, Kenneth Salem)
Watch now (142 mins) | The first edition of Papers We Love meetups started with the “Sagas” whitepaper by Hector Garcia-Molina and Kenneth Salem. It's a famous work that is foundational for
12/18/2023
12 : 44
Architecture Weekly #158 - 18th December 2023
We're starting with why I got 3rd time to HN front page and invitation for the first edition of Papers We Love. We analyse 12 (well almost) architecture pitfalls. Discuss the challenges of the
12/11/2023
13 : 44
Architecture Weekly #157 - 11th December 2023
The end of the year is the right time to make predictions, check what we have on your plate and reflect on the past. That's what we did! We also discussed whether making it based on examples from
12/4/2023
11 : 24
Architecture Weekly #156 - 4th December 2023
Welcome to the new week; this time, we looked at a 1 billion dollar mistake by Citibank. Then, we discussed why it's fair that Google dropped the don't be evil slogan. Of course, we looked at
11/29/2023
7 : 54
Webinar #15 - Mário Bittencourt: Leveraging BPMN for Seamless Team Collaboration in Software Development
Watch now (100 mins) | This time, a special guest Mário Bittencourt, with the topic: Leveraging BPMN for Seamless Team Collaboration in Software Development. I'm very happy that Mário Bittencourt
11/27/2023
12 : 44
Architecture Weekly #155 - 27th November 2023
We started today by following up on GDPR and privacy regulations for Event-Driven Architecture, then looked at collaborative system design. We ended with a long, deep dive into the evolution of your
11/23/2023
8 : 34
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11/20/2023
14 : 24
Architecture Weekly #154 - 20th November 2023
This week, of course, we had to start with the fun times with Open AI, but we're serious people, so no speculations from us, just facts. We also discussed 11 lessons learned from 20 years of