Architecture

If you’re developing a Monolith or using a Monolithic Architecture doesn’t mean it needs to be a big ball of mud. Most people equate a Monolith with a Big Ball of Mud because it’s highly coupled and difficult to change. However, you can combat it by defining strict boundaries and logically decoupling those boundaries and the data that each boundary owns. To go even further you can loosely couple by leveraging asynchronous messaging between boundaries. Does this sound familiar? Like Microservices where each service has its defined capabilities and database? YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of… Read More »Long live the Monolith! Monolithic Architecture != Big Ball of Mud

Indirection is fundamental to software design. Creating abstractions is one common way of creating indirection. The benefits are reuse, isolating complexity, encapsulation of dependencies, and more. But what’s the cost of indirection & abstractions? Cognitive load to fully understand all of the layers of a request and limiting functionality. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Indirection To illustrate indirection, first, let’s get down to the basics of having calling code (Caller) that is invoking another piece of code (Target). Adding indirection… Read More »What’s the Cost of Indirection & Abstractions?

When building Software as a Service (SaaS) you’ll often need to use a Multi-tenant Architecture. There are many different ways that you can segregate compute and data storage in a multi-tenant architecture. Data storage can be in a silo or partitioned. Compute can be pooled or siloed. And both together you can create lanes for groups of tenants. In this architecture, having the identity of each request is critical in being able to route a request all the way through to the right services and resources. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my… Read More »Multi-tenant Architecture for SaaS