Architecture

Your customers do not care about the technology behind your app. What programming language, frameworks, libraries, or whatever tooling you’re using, they don’t care. They care about it providing them value and that it has certain characteristics. They want it to work. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Context Matters Of course, there’s nuance to this—context matters. For instance, if your customers are developers, they likely care about how the application is built. This blog/video is inspired by a wonderful tweet that illustrates this… Read More »Your Customers Don’t Care About JavaScript

Web-Queue-Worker is an excellent architecture pattern you can add to your toolbox. It’s just a pattern and can work with a monolith, modular monolith, microservices, or whatever. It provides many benefits for scaling by moving work into the background and if you have long-running jobs, workflows, or even recurring batch jobs. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Flow Here’s the flow of the Web-Queue-Worker pattern in its simplest form. We have a client make a request to our HTTP API (Web), which generates a… Read More »Web-Queue-Worker Architecture Style for Scaling

What should your project structure look like? How should you structure and organize your HTTP APIs? Here’s one way by Jono Williams and my thoughts and insights about some misconceptions about Domain Driven Design. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Typical Structures There are a few common folder structures that people typically use. Probably the most common is organizing by technical concerns. This means grouping files and classes based on their type, such as controllers, services, and models. You’ve likely encountered this if you’ve… Read More »Keep your project structure simple!