Architecture

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!

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?

I’ve recently read a few blogs and watched videos that compare gRPC with REST and GraphQL. It seemed like the majority claimed that gRPC is the standard for communication between services without giving any real reason. I think it would be better served to explain where and the situations where gRPC could be useful and where I’d avoid using it. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Query Composition I can see gRPC being useful where requests are naturally request-response. Queries and performing UI/ViewModel Composition… Read More »Where should you use gRPC? And where NOT!