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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
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.